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The "Yellow Pages" of history. Trade directories provide the fundamental data for the photo-historian, locating studios in time and place. By tracking these listings, we can map the rise and fall of businesses and the migration of photographers across cities and continents.

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Locate the Studio — Search the directories to track photographers through time.

Contents

Introduction
1Marketing: Trade directories
Examples
2Daguerreotypes and hats
3I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880)

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