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1.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Signs for Daguerreotype Rooms

Signs
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9886
2.Samuel Broadbent
1856
Panorama of Philadelphia. Chestnut Street, East of Fifth (Detail showing the Daguerreotype Gallery of Broadbent) - Collins and Autenrieth (Artists)

Lithograph
6 3/4 x 10 1/4 in (complete lithograph)
 
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
Courtesy of Nick and Lynn Heckett
 
Printed by Schnabel, Finkeldey & Demme, Lithograph Institute of Philadelphia
 
LL/15029
3.Mayall & Co
1870-1875
Exterior view of the premises of Mayall & Co.

Albumen print
Private collection of Lisa Tao
LL/18478
4.O.B. Silver
1861 (ca)
O.B. Silver's Ambrotype Gallery

Ambrotype, 1/2 plate
California State Library
Record no: 001379275
 
Dutch Flat, California.
 
LL/38269
5.Morse
1860s (ca)
Morse's Photographs - Tent in use

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35885
6.H. Gurlitz
1860s (ca)
Harry Gurlitz's Photograph Gallery

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35887
7.McLeon's, W.A. Mooers, operator (operator. 34 Charlotte St., St. John, New Brunswick)
n.d.
Photograph Saloon on raft

Carte de visite
Rare Photo Gallery - Neil David MacDonald
Note the numerous photographs on the exterior of the wagon.
 
On 25 June 1885 The Press Newspaper (Woodstock, NB, Canada) reported:
Messrs. W. A. Mooers and W. L. Alterton, Photographers, desirous to secure views of the magnificent scenery of the river St. John between Woodstock and the City of St. John, recently fitted up a strong raft, on which they placed a " Photographic Studio " sufficiently large to allow them ample room for their instruments and work-room, and also to furnish them with comfortable cooking and sleeping apartments. They expect to spend several weeks on the cruise. Preparations had been made to start from Upper Woodstock last Monday morning, but owing to the heavy winds that have prevailed this week their craft is still at anchor.

 
LL/35996
8.Unidentified photographer / artist
1860s (ca)
Exterior of a Photographic Gallery

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35889
9.W.P. Floyd
1869 (ca)
Queens Road, Hongkong

Albumen print
24.8 x 19 cm
 
Tonpeek Photography
LL/39188
10.Thomas Easterly
1870
Fourth Street North from Olive, Bell's Gallery

Daguerreotype
Missouri Historical Society
Courtesy of the Missouri History Museum, Thomas Easterly Collection N17001.
 
This Daguerreotype was uploaded to Flickr (2009-2010).
 
LL/36389
11.Unidentified photographer / artist
1860s
Great Malvern, England

Stereocard
Early Image: 19th & Early 20th Century Photographs
Courtesy of Josh Wiesner - The Early Image
 
It's unclear how or why the pieces of newspaper are stuck on the stone wall, but one of them has what appears to be a large ad for cartes de visite.
 
LL/14211
12.Unidentified photographer / artist
1860s
Great Malvern, England (Detail)

Stereocard
Early Image: 19th & Early 20th Century Photographs
Courtesy of Josh Wiesner - The Early Image
 
It's unclear how or why the pieces of newspaper are stuck on the stone wall, but one of them has what appears to be a large ad for cartes de visite.
 
LL/14212
13.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Chase's Daguerreotype Rooms

Broadside
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9639
14.Chase's Daguerreotype Rooms (Boston)
n.d.
Chase's Dauerreotype Rooms, 257 Washington Street, Boston
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9892
15.E.S. Hayden
1850 (ca)
Advertisement for E.S. Hayden's Daguerreotype Miniatures

Advert
Archive Farms
LL/38866
16.C.V. Allen
n.d.
Card for C.V. Allen & Co. [Boston]

Daguerreotype label
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (46 / 21)
 
C.V. Allen (Boston)
 
LL/8849
17.Marcus Aurelius Root
1850 (ca)
John Chambers Rankin & Sarah Trimball Comfort

Daguerreotype, cased
Private collection of Ken Burkhart
He was a Presbyterian minister and missionary in India from 1840-1848, returning to head the church at Basking Ridge, NJ until 1895. Their son Walter Rankin, Sr. went on to be come the 2nd President of Carroll College 1866-1904 (now Carroll University).
 
Root's Gallery, 140 Chestnut St. Philada.
 
LL/42555
18.Marcus Aurelius Root
1850 (ca)
Address for "Root's Gallery 140 Chestnut St. Philada."

Daguerreotype case, red velvet
Private collection of Ken Burkhart
LL/42556
19.Gustave Le Gray
1858 (ca)
Gustave Le Gray - Business Card

Business card
2.7 x3.9 ins
 
Archive Farms
Engraved by Graveur Stern (France). From the archives of Graveur Stern, 47, Passage des Panoramas, Paris.
 
LL/38875
20.Adrien Tournachon
1857 (ca)
Adrien Tournachon - Business Card

Business card
2.7 x3.9 ins
 
Archive Farms
Engraved by Graveur Stern (France). From the archives of Graveur Stern, 47, Passage des Panoramas, Paris.
 
Tournachon's studio declared bankruptcy in 1858.
 
LL/38876
21.1840
Instructions in the Daguerreotype - Mr. Seager

Advert
Google Books
This was published in "A Full Description of te Daguerreotype Process: As Published by M. Daguerre." (New York: for sale by J.R. Chilton, 1840) - which was extracted from "The American Repertory", edited by Prof. J.J. Mapes.
 
LL/34801
22.n.d.
Advertisement for L.H. Griffin's Ambrotype and Photograph Rooms, 268 Washington St. Boston.

Advert
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
L.H. Griffin's Ambrotype Rooms
 
Warranted Pictures in any weather, for 25 cents and upwards.
A good assortment of cases, cheap.
 
Likenesses set in Lockets, Pins, and Finger Rings.
Copying carefully executed
 
Up only one flight of stairs.
268 Washington St., Boston
 
LL/9842
23.Parker's Photographic Rooms (Pekin, ILL)
1865, 7 March (after, date of Potter's Patent)
Advertising for Parker‘s Photographic Rooms,Pekin, ILL.

Tintype, carte de visite mount
Private collection of Laurie Minor
Features engraving of photographer taking photo of mother and child, using large format camera on tripod.
 
LL/31395
24.Schoonmaker & Hill
n.d.
Tintype advertising showing a man astride a large format camera which appears to have legs of a horse

Tintype, carte de visite mount
Private collection of Laurie Minor
The print reads: "OPPOSITION THE LIFE OF BUSINESS. Prices Reduced on Pictures, at SCHOONMAKER'S OLD STAND, 282 River St., Troy, N.Y. Gem Pictures, with Cards or Fittings, .25 cts. a dozen. Our Superior Card Photographs, $2.00 a dozen. Beautiful Ambrotypes, with Case .25 cents each. ~ SCHOONMAKER & HILL".
 
LL/31398
25.J.H. Abbott
n.d.
Advertising image for "J.H. Abbott Photographer 480 Broadway Albany N.Y."

Tintype, back, detail
Private collection of Ken Burkhart
Note that this includes advertising by "17 x 22", "In OIl" and "BonTon" photographs.
 
LL/42538
26.Myles Garner
1887, 1 June
Advertisement for Myles Garner, photographer

Advert
British Library
Courtesy of the British Library, Item number: 6489, Shelfmark: Evan.6489
 
LL/37234
27.William Bailey
1889
Advertisement for William Bailey, photographer

Advert
British Library
Courtesy of the British Library, Item number: 6475, Shelfmark: Evan.6475
 
LL/37235
28.F. Brookes
1891
Advertisement for F. Brookes, artist and photographer

Advert
British Library
Courtesy of the British Library, Item number: 6628, Shelfmark: Evan.6628
 
LL/37236
29.W. Mountain
1884
Advertisement for W. Mountain's Royal Academy Studios

Advert
British Library
Courtesy of the British Library, Item number: 6482, Shelfmark: Evan.6482
 
LL/37237
30.Maurice Palmer
1870
Advertisement for Maurice Palmer, photographer

Advert
British Library
Courtesy of the British Library, Item number: 9034, Shelfmark: Evan.9034
 
LL/37238
31.Albert Flint
1887
Advertisement for Albert Flint, photographic artist

Advert
British Library
Courtesy of the British Library, Item number: 6905, Shelfmark: Evan.6905
 
LL/37239
32.Plimpton & Ruggles
1866
Plimpton and Ruggles, successors to Geo. W. Miller, Photographist

Advert
Google Books
Plimpton & Ruggles (Roxbury)
 
Published in "The Roxbury Directory" by Samual Davenport & Co (Roxbury: John Backup, 1866) in the advertising section.
 
Roxbury is in Massachusetts, USA.
 
LL/34941
33.C. Cole (Roxbury)
1866
C. Cole, Photograph Artist

Advert
Google Books
Published in "The Roxbury Directory" by Samual Davenport & Co (Roxbury: John Backup, 1866) in the advertising section.
 
Roxbury is in Massachusetts, USA.
 
LL/34942
34.1854, December
Advert for Daguerreotypes

Advert
Google Books
This advert was published in "The Knickerbocker", Volume XLIV, December, 1854, No.6, p.662
 
LL/34626
35.Mrs. J.R. Spooner
1845, 11 January
Mrs J.R. Spooner begs to announce…

Advert
Google Books
Universalist Watchmen and Christian Repository (Montpelier, VT), Vol.16, No.26, January 11, 1845, p.216.
 
MRS. J. R. SPOONER begs to announce that during her late visit to New York, she has taken lessons in the Daguerreotype art from one of the first practitioners in the city, and that she is now ready lo take miniatures in a superior manner, with warranted durable colors, and possessing all the perfections of nature.
 
Terms, including a handsome morroco miniature case, $3.
 
East Randolph, Vt.
 
LL/36144
36.E. Jacobs (New Orleans)
1851
Daguerreotypists. E. Jacobs

Book page
Google Books
"Business Register - New Orleans" in De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West, Volume XI, New Series, Vol.IV, 1851
 
LL/36159
37.James Wallace Black
1862
J.W. Black, Photographist

Advert
Google Books
The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1862 (Boston: Adams, Sampson, & Company, 1862), Advertising Department, p.24.
 
LL/36170
38.Martin M. Lawrence
1854, December
Lawrence

Advert
Google Books
This advert was published in "The Knickerbocker", Volume XLIV, December, 1854, No.6, p.662
 
LL/34630
39.1856
Farmer's Photographic Portraits, Brighton

Advert
Google Books
Advert was published in John Glyde, Jun. Suffolk in the Nineteenth Century: Physical, Social, Moral, Religious, and Industrial (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1856)
 
LL/35359
40.Platt D. Babbitt
n.d.
Advert for Platt D. Babbitt

Advert
Private collection of Richard O. Titus
F.H. Johnson's Guide to Niagara Falls, p.67
 
LL/42925
41.Jeremiah Gurney
1854
J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery, (corner Leonard Street,) 349 Broadway, New York

Advert
Google Books
This advert was published in "The Illustrated American Biography" by A.D. Jones, Volume II, (New York: J. Milton Emerson & Co., 1854)
 
LL/34618
42.Jeremiah Gurney
1854
J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery, (corner Leonard Street,) 349 Broadway, New York

Advert
Google Books
This advert was published in "The Illustrated American Biography" by A.D. Jones, Volume II, (New York: J. Milton Emerson & Co., 1854)
 
LL/34619
43.1866
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York

Advert
Google Books
Published in "Humphrey's Journal of Photography and the Allied Arts and Sciences", Vol.17, No. 21, March 1, 1866
 
LL/34601
44.Oscar Gustave Rejlander
1869, 18 June
Mr. Rejlander's New Studio

Magazine illustration
Google Books
Published in "The Illustrated Photographer: Scientific and Art Journal" (London: 1869), Volume 2, June 18th, 1869, p.289
 
We have already given, in articles written by Mr. Sutton and the Gossiping Photographer, a very full and complete description of Mr. Rejlander's new studio, but to render these complete we now append an engraving from a photograph of the room which will make these descriptions still more clear and understandable.
 
In illustration of the uses of such a room, we may mention that on a recent occasion the members of the Solar Club dined in it, and while some sat on either side of a long dining table and others at the top of it, one figure some feet beyond it and another figure a greater distance in front of it in all sixteen figures -Mr. Rejlander took a photograph, in which without any striking effect of exaggerated perspective or out-of-focus blurring, a faithful and striking portrait of every person present was duly secured. The distance from the farther to the nearer sitter must have been considerably over twenty feet, probably nearly thirty.
 
The portion of the room not represented in our engraving is that end of it which is formed by the solid sheet of plate glass, which descending through the floor enables you to walk out into a balcony beyond it. In connexion with this huge window, Mr. Rejlander pointed out a very curious and amusing optical effect of which he had availed himself photographically by producing the portrait of a lady, who sitting alone, was astonished to find that the photograph represented her with a gentleman in singularly close proximity to her. The explanation is that the figures were both on a line with each other, and at an equal distance from the plate-glass window which stood at a right angle between them. The lens saw the one figure through the glass and the other on the glass, and so both appeared on the plate as if they had been taken together, although the one might not have been aware even of the other's presence.
 
LL/34594
45.1889
Germany, Romain Talbot, Berlin

Advert
Google Books
Advert included in H.P. Robinson "Picture-Making by Photography", Second edition, revised (London: Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., 1889)
 
LL/35552
46.J.C. Moulton
1860s (ca)
A bird delivers the card of J.C. Moulton, Photographic Artist, 368 Main Street, Fitchburg, Mass.

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
J.C. Moulton (Fitchburg, Mass.)
 
LL/35877
47.A.H. Hemple
n.d.
A.H. Hemple (Advertising CDV)

Carte de visite
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (45 / 55)
 
For A. H. Hemple, Philadelphia. A collage of images and stereo views of railroad and engineering subjects. Red-bordered CDV is slightly light.
 
LL/10897
48.Mathew B. Brady
1854
A New Feature in Daguerreotypes has been introduced by Brady, at his Old Gallery, 205 Broadway, cor. Of Fulton St. N.Y.

Advert
Google Books
This advert was published in "The Commercial Advertiser - Directory of the City of Buffalo" (Buffalo: Jewett, Thomas & Co., 1854)
 
LL/34625
49.Mathew B. Brady
1854
Brady's New and Magnificent Daguerreotype Gallery, 359 Broadway, New York

Advert
Google Books
This advert was published in "The American National Preacher" edited by Rev. E. Carpenter, Volume I28, No.1, January 1854
 
LL/34623
50.Mathew B. Brady
1854
Brady's Daguerrian Galleries, 359 & 205 Broadway, New York

Advert
Google Books
This advert was published in "The Illustrated American Biography" by A.D. Jones, Volume II, (New York: J. Milton Emerson & Co., 1854)
 
LL/34616
51.John Thomson
1873-1874 (Published)
A Hong-Kong Artist

Book illustration
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and Its People, a Series of Two Hundred Photographs with Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented, 4 vols. (London: Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, 1873 [vols. 1 and 2] and 1874 [vols. 3 and 4]), Vol. 1
 
A Hong-Kong Artist
 
Lumqua was a Chinese pupil of Chinnery, a noted foreign artist, who died at Macao in 1852. Lumqua produced a number of excellent works in oil, which are still copied by the painters in Hong-Kong and Canton. Had he lived in any other country he would have been the founder of a school of painting. In China his followers have failed to grasp the spirit of his art. They drudge with imitative servile toil, copying Lumqua's or Chinnery's pieces, or anything, no matter what, just because it has been finished and paid for within a given time, and at so much a square foot. There are a number of painters established in Hong-Kong, but they all do the same class of work, and have about the same tariff of prices, regulated according to the dimensions of the canvas. The occupation of these limners consists mainly of making enlarged copies of photographs. Each house employs a touter, who scours the shipping in the harbour with samples of the work, and finds many ready customers among the foreign sailors. These bargain to have Mary or Susan painted on as large a scale and at as small a price as possible, the work to be delivered framed and ready for sea probably within twenty-four hours. The painters divide their labour on the following plan. The apprentice confines himself to bodies and hands, while the master executes the physiognomy, and thus the work is got through with wonderful speed. Attractive colours are freely used; so that Jack's fair ideal appears at times in a sky-blue dress, over which a massive gold chain and other articles of jewellery are liberally hung. These pictures would be fair works of art were the drawing good, and the brilliant colours properly arranged; but all the distortions of the badly taken photographs are faithfully reproduced on an enlarged scale. The best works these painters do are pictures of native and foreign ships, which are wonderfully drawn. To enlarge a picture they draw squares over their canvas corresponding to the smaller squares into which they divide the picture to be copied. The miniature painters in Hong-Kong and Canton do some work on ivory that is as fine as the best ivory painting to be found among the natives of India, and fit to bear comparison with the old miniature painting of our own country, which photography has, now-a-days, in great measure superseded.
 
LL/40150
52.I.W. Taber
1881
Photographic studios of San Francisco

Book page
Google Books
Captain S.H. Jones-Parry, My Journey Round the World via Ceylon, New Zealand, Australia, Torres Straits, China, Japan, and the United States, Two Volumes (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1881), Volume II, p.145-146
 
I must not leave this part of my journey without a word on that for which this place bears a world-wide renown; I allude to photography. The first morning after my arrival, when I got up to take in my boots, I found outside my door two envelopes addressed to me, each containing a cabinet photograph of some evidently well-known actress, and a card requesting me to visit the studio of the sender. As I had already collected a large assortment of photographic views on my travels, I now determined to add to it a collection of portraits as specimens of the art in the States. I called at several studios to make purchases, and at each place a lovely specimen of art was gratuitously given, in addition to wliat I bought. I think, as I have before said, that the San Francisco portraits rank first in my collection. The photographers themselves were highly intellectual men, and I owe much to Mr. Tabor and Mr. Boyd, for many pleasant moments spent in their studios. The former took the trouble to send after me to New York a duplicate of a work of art that I had much admired in his collection.
 
LL/40642
53.Baker's Art Gallery
n.d.
[Detail]

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
Baker's Art Gallery, 106 South High St., Columbus, O.
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9418
54.Louis A. Rudolph
n.d.
Untitled

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
Louis A. Rudolph, 957 Milwaukee Ave. Chicago
 
There are three messages in the windows:
  • 12 Cabinets and a Life Size Crayon $4.75
  • Cabinets $2.00 per dozen
  • Children's pictures a speciality

 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9424
55.Briggs & Co. (Ottumwa, Iowa)
n.d.
Backmark for "Briggs & Co., Photographers, The Ground Floor Studio, 311 E. Main St., Ottumwa, Iowa"

Cabinet card, back, detail
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
Briggs & Co. Photographers, The Ground Floor Studio, 311E Main St. Ottumwa, Iowa.
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9429
56.Frances Benjamin Johnston
1903, May
Frances Benjamin Johnston selling tintypes at a Virginia country fair

Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-J713-4931
 
This photograph was used on the book cover for Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock "A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston 1889-1910" (New York: Harmony Books, 1974)
 
LL/37192
57.Mathew B. Brady
1854 (ca)
[Brady's Daguerrean Gallery]

Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
DAG no. 030, LC-USZ62-109858 DLC (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
 
An interior view of reception gallery, showing ladies and gentlemen in groups, conversing and looking at work of studio, which is displayed on walls. In distant background, seen through entrance to another room, is operator standing beside camera. Apparently from original drawing by unknown artist, reproduced as woodcut in Brady's advertisements in Norton's Literary Gazette for 1854 and elsewhere.
 
LL/33477
58.F.M. Yeager
1860s (ca)
Interior of F.M. Yeager's studio showing his properties

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
F.M. Yeager (Reading, Pa.)
 
LL/35878
59.Jeremiah Gurney
1854
Daguerrean Sketches in New York [Interior of J. Gurney's daguerreian gallery at 349 Broadway, New York]

Engraving
Daguerreian Society
Courtesy of the Daguerreian Society (www.daguerre.org)
 
LL/6764
60.Lewis H. Bissell
1895 (ca)
Photographer's Studio

Cabinet card
Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs
Courtesy of Carl Mautz
 
Bissell (Effingham, Illinois)
 
LL/11950
61.D. Appleton
1858-1860 (ca)
Untitled image inside the Appleton Store, showing customers, staff, views, viewers, signs advertising views and viewers.

Stereocard
Jefferson Stereoptics
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tue, Dec 12, 2006 & Thu, Dec 14, 2006, # 06-4, Lot 364)
 
Appleton, New York Stereoscopic Company
 
LL/15898
62.D. Appleton
1858-1860 (ca)
Untitled image inside the Appleton Store, showing customers, staff, views, viewers, signs advertising views and viewers.

Stereocard, detail
Jefferson Stereoptics
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tue, Dec 12, 2006 & Thu, Dec 14, 2006, # 06-4, Lot 364)
 
LL/15899
63.F. Jay Haynes
1886
The interior of the Haynes Palace Studio Car at Helena (M/T.)

Uncertain format
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
This photograph was published with the following note in Edward W. Nolan Northern Pacific views: The railroad photography of F. Jay Haynes, 1876-1905 (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 1983):
 
The reception room in the Palace Studio car displayed the wide variety of photograph types available to patrons. In addition to fancy frames, Haynes offered mammoth plate views of Yellowstone for sale. The sitting room was through the door to the left of the desk, and beyond that were the living quarters.
 
[The details on the archive holding the original image along with the accession id are requested. A copy of this photograph may be at Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo]
 
LL/36180
64.F. Jay Haynes
1896
Salesroom, F. Jay Haynes, Mammoth Hotel, Yellowstone National Park

Photographic print
5 x 7 ins
 
The Pioneer Museum - Gallatin Historical Society
Courtesy of the Pioneer Museum of Bozeman, photograph donated by Patricia Purdy Hillman. Photograph #10788.
 
F. Jay Haynes leased space in the Old Mammoth Hotel and operated a sales stand there for many years beginning about 1892 when the hotels were operated (1886-1909) by the Yellowstone Park Association.
 
LL/36192
65.Thomas Houseworth
n.d.
Page 29. Houseworth's illustrated catalogue of celebrities, 121 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Photographic copy print
16.5 x 11.2 cm
 
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call Number: Uncat WA MSS 429, Image ID Number: 1078684
 
LL/38211
66.London Stereoscopic Company
1856
Christmas and Winter Evening's Enjoyment. Amusement and Instruction for All !, 24 page catalogue

Catalogue
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#23 / 222)
 
LL/42965
67.Lawrence & Houseworth
1866
Book cover for "Gems of California Scenery. Catalogue of Views Photographed and Published by Lawrence & Houseworth, Opticians, 317 & 319 Montogomery Street, San Francisco", Third edition (1866)

Book cover
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Lawrence & Houseworth Collection, LC-USZ62-133179
 
LL/36189
68.Giacomo Brogi
1881
Catalogue of the photographs of Giacomo Brogi (Firenze)

Catalogue cover
Archive Farms
LL/38868
69.Soule Photograph Company
1887, January
"Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions of Works of Art. Published by the Soule Photograph Company.", January, 1887, 50th Thousand, Tenth Edition, (Boston, Mass.)

Catalogue cover
Google Books
LL/39525
70.The Yamabe Photo Co. (Yokohama, Japan)
1890 (ca)
Price list of the Leading Photographers, The Yamabe Photo Co.

Albumen print, octagonal format
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
A hand-colored photo-composite of eight Japanese images and wood-grained box, mounted as cover on a folding octagonal "Price List of the […] Yamabe Photo Co. / No. 12, Bund, Yokohama."
 
The text of price list is entirely in English, indicating that it was probably directed at visiting foreigners: "Price List of the Leading Photographers / The Yamabe Photo Co., No. 12, Bund, Yokohama / Only Strictly First Class Work Done at Our Gallery / We are the only firm making Bas Reliefs, Iridiums & Carbonettes in Japan." The interior offers "Prices of Portraits" in Cabinet, Cartes de Visite, "Paris Panels" and "10x12" format, as well as "Views…", colored and uncolored, and "Albums, Album Covers in Cherry Lacquer, Frames &c., in great Variety."
 
LL/39537
71.The Yamabe Photo Co. (Yokohama, Japan)
1890 (ca)
Price list of the Leading Photographers, The Yamabe Photo Co.

Albumen print, octagonal format
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
A hand-colored photo-composite of eight Japanese images and wood-grained box, mounted as cover on a folding octagonal "Price List of the […] Yamabe Photo Co. / No. 12, Bund, Yokohama."
 
The text of price list is entirely in English, indicating that it was probably directed at visiting foreigners: "Price List of the Leading Photographers / The Yamabe Photo Co., No. 12, Bund, Yokohama / Only Strictly First Class Work Done at Our Gallery / We are the only firm making Bas Reliefs, Iridiums & Carbonettes in Japan." The interior offers "Prices of Portraits" in Cabinet, Cartes de Visite, "Paris Panels" and "10x12" format, as well as "Views…", colored and uncolored, and "Albums, Album Covers in Cherry Lacquer, Frames &c., in great Variety."
 
LL/39538
72.Alfredo Noack
n.d.
Photograph album "Ricordo del Campo Santo - Genova", Alfredo Noack, Genova

Album cover
12 x 17 cm (album)
 
Private collection of Christoph Laubsch
LL/41248
73.Schleaers Gallery (Knoxville, Tenn.)
1860s (ca)
Photo still life with a pyramid of carte de visite albums

Carte de visite, trimmed, detail
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35880
74.Xavier Merieux
1865
Photographic trade card

Albumen print
8.8 x 5.7 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer (GEH NEGS: 26036 10164, 80:0474:0001)
 
LL/6986
75.Wilson, Hood & Co.
1860s (ca)
Photographic paraphenalia

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35882
76.Gustave Cousin (Paris)
1870 (ca)
Props in a 19th century Parisian photography studio

Albumen print
Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius)
Note the background, headrest, props and photographic apparatus.
 
LL/38872
77.Orvis
1860s (ca)
A photographer, presumably J.R. Orvis, with his camera, props and photographic paraphenalia

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
J.R. Orvis (Fayette, Ohio)
 
LL/35895
78.O.W. Horton
n.d.
O.W. Horton emptying his scrap bag of photographs

Carte de visite
Private collection of Erin Waters
LL/34284
79.Abraham Bogardus
n.d.
Keep this as your guide to get fine Photographs

Cabinet card (?), small, composite
3 1/4 x 5 in (approx)
 
Private collection of Laurie Minor
The photographs include internationally acclaimed Norwegian violinist Ole Bull (2nd photo from top/center).
 
LL/31317
80.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Whimsical, creative advertising photograph which reads, Stolen from Franks', Peoria City Directory

Cabinet card, trimmed
3 3/4 x 5 3/8 in
 
Capitol Gallery
Courtesy of Capitol Gallery (Spring 2007 Auction, #79)
 
A number of examples of the photographer's work are illustrated, from the traditional cabinet card to larger oval and circular images. All have been intertwined with a weave of vines and leaves creating an artistic effect.
 
LL/17793
81.Émile Gsell
1860s
[Photographic Advertisement]

Albumen silver print, from glass negative
23.5 x 31.8 cm (9 1/4 x 12 1/2 ins)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.497
 
LL/40406
82.J.H. Emerson
n.d.
Daguerrean banknote, Emerson‘s Photographic & Daguerrean Palace, 81 Main Street, Keokuk, Iowa

Banknote
Private collection of Allan Janus
Emerson (Keokuk, Iowa)
 
LL/32279
83.J.H. Emerson
n.d.
Daguerrean banknote, Emerson‘s Photographic & Daguerrean Palace, 81 Main Street, Keokuk, Iowa (detail)

Banknote, detail
Private collection of Allan Janus
Emerson (Keokuk, Iowa)
 
LL/32280
84.Eugène Constant
1852 (ca)
Stamp for Eugène Constant

Studio stamp
Studios Robespierre, Serge Plantureux
courtesy Choppin De Janvry (May 30, 2007, #80)
 
LL/19690
85.Emilie Bieber
1852-1860 (ca)
Daguerreotype label for the Emilie Bieber studio in Hamburg

Studio label
Private collection of Klaus Niermann
LL/21349
86.Carlo Baldassare Simelli
n.d.
Studio label for Simelli

Studio label
Private collection of Katherine Babin
On reverse of a [Collage of old master sketches]
 
LL/29417
87.G. Lékégian
1880 (ca)
Studio label for G. Lekegian on negative

Studio mark on negative
Private Collection of Robert G. Hill, Toronto, Ont.
www.hillcollection.com - Acc: 698
 
LL/30664
88.Luis Leon Masson
1860 (ca)
Studio stamp for Luis Leon Masson

Studio stamp
Private Collection of Robert G. Hill, Toronto, Ont.
www.hillcollection.com - Acc: 982
 
On "Courtyard at the House of Pilate, Seville, Spain"
 
LL/30839
89.John Plumbe Jr.
1850 (ca)
Plumbe National Daguerreian Gallery, No. 75 Court Street [Boston]

Label on back of a Daguerreotype
2 in x 2.5 in
 
Archive Farms
LL/38865
90.L. Leblanc
n.d.
Label for "Portraits Daguerriens et Photographie sur Papier Perfectionnés par L. LeBlanc. Reproduction de Tableaux, Dessins, Gravures, Objets d'Art &c. No.1 Boulevard des Italiens et rue Richelieu, 115. Maison de la Petite Jeanette"

Daguerreotype, back
23 x 19 cm
 
Dordrechts Museum
www.daguerreobase.org - Daguerreobase no: DMU07
 
LL/41452
91.Alexandre Bertrand
n.d.
Portrait of a standing woman holding a folio book

Daguerreotype, stereo, back label
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
Courtesy of Christopher Wahren
 
Resealed with original artist's label on reverse of mount.
 
LL/15611
92.Mr and Mme Guyard (Paris)
1845 (ca)
Label for M. et Mme. Guyard - Artistes Peintre de Paris

Printed label
Universiteit Leiden, Prentenkabinet
www.daguerreobase.org - Daguerreobase no: PKL-65.0857
 
On reverse of "Portrait of an unknown woman".
 
LL/41471
93.Blandin (Reims)
1855
Label for Blandin, Rue Large, 18.

Label on reverse of Daguerreotype
13.6 x 16 cm
 
Collectie Driesen
www.daguerreobase.org - Daguerreobase no: DRI-2004-09-001
 
On the reverse of a Daguerreotype portrait of I. [or J.] Mennesson.
 
LL/41499
94.A. Daru
1842 (or later)
Printed back of a Daguerreotype "Portraits au Daguerreotype, en un minute, par A. Daru de Paris"

Prnted back
15.3 x 12.7 cm
 
Museum Enschedé
www.daguerreobase.org - Daguerreobase no: ME29
 
On the reverse of a Daguerreotype portrait of Jacoba Catharina Abramina Enschedé.
 
LL/41502
95.Désiré François Millet
n.d.
Stereo daguerreotype of French soldier

Daguerreotype, stereo, back label
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
Courtesy of Christopher Wahren
 
Stereo daguerreotype of French soldier, by Désiré Franþois Millet, Paris, ca. 1860. With intact period seals and reverse-painted glass mount with Millet studio stencil in gilt on front and Millet studio label on reverse. Notation on reverse identifies the sitter as "Edmond LaferriÞre". Applied color in flesh, red, blue, green, gilt, and silver.
 
LL/15605
96.Francis Bedford
1862 (ca)
Signature of F. Bedford on negative

Signature on negative
Private Collection of Robert G. Hill, Toronto, Ont.
www.hillcollection.com - Acc: 878
 
LL/30668
97.Pascal Sebah
1870 (ca)
Signature of Pascal Sebah on the negative

Signature on negative
Private Collection of Robert G. Hill, Toronto, Ont.
www.hillcollection.com - Acc: 207
 
On "Fountain of Eyoub, Constantinople"
 
LL/30658
98.Bisson frères
1850s (ca)
Signature stamp for Bisson frères

Signature stamp
Lee Gallery
LL/13360
99.Samuel Bourne
1865 (ca)
Signature of Samuel Bourne with his number on the negative

Signature and number on negative
Private Collection of Robert G. Hill, Toronto, Ont.
www.hillcollection.com - Acc: 256
 
On "View of the Fort at Agra".
 
LL/30657
100.William Henry Jackson
1884-1900 (ca)
Printed card back for "W.H. Jackson & Co., Photographers of Rocky Mountain Scenery Denver, Colorado"

Studio details, printed
DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU
Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Call number: Ag1999.1255
 
LL/38146
101.G. Churchill
n.d.
[England]

Carte de visite, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9400
102.Oliver Sarony
1863, 26 June (after)
Advertising Carte de Visite by Sarony, Scarborough, England

Carte de visite, front
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (26 September 2009, #22 / 125)
 
LL/34126
103.W. & D. Downey
1868, September
Princess Alexandra with her daughter, Princess Louise

Carte de visite
Paul Frecker
Paul Frecker provides the following comments:
 
"A carte-de-visite showing Princess Alexandra with her daughter, Princess Louise, born in 1867. Taken in September 1868, it was intended to show that the Princess had fully recovered from the bout of rheumatic fever which had struck her in the late winter / early spring of 1867. It proved to be the most popular carte-de-visite of its day. In 1885 Downey remembered that somewhere in the region of 300,000 copies had been sold, and it's not hard to see why. Compared to the stiffness and formality of most portraiture at this time, and Royal portraiture in particular, the freshness and spontaneity is like a splash of cold water!"
 
LL/12019
104.Russell & Sons
n.d.
Untitled

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
Russell & Sons, 17 Baker Street, London W.
 
The back says that the studio was established in 1852 and it includes the coats of arms of heads of state.
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9441
105.Jean Baptiste Feilner
n.d.
[Germany]

Carte de visite, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9404
106.William Notman
n.d.
[Detail]

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
The Notman Photographic Co limited, 3 Park Street also 184 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Also at 48 North Pearl St, Albany, N.Y.
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9435
107.S.L. Stein
n.d.
Printed back showing awards.

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9444
108.Unidentified photographer / artist
1867, 8 January
Mr. J.R. Goodin offered the following resolution

Book page
Google Books
Published in "House Journal of the Legislative Assemby of the State of Kansas, Begun and Held at Topeka, on Tuesday, January 8th, A.D., 1867" (Kansas,Leavenworth: Clarke, Emery & Co, 1867), p.422.
 
Mr. J.R. Goodin offered the following resolution:
 
Whereas, A certain photographist in the city of Topeka is desirous of taking the pictures of the members of this House upon a single card or plate, to be used as a sign for his establishment; and
 
Whereas. It is universally admitted that the members of this House are the handsomest set of men that ever assembled in the city of Topeka in a legislative capacity, and therefore need not bo ashamed to have their photographs exposed to public view; therefore
 
Resolved, That the said artist be permitted to take the said photos upon payment of one dollar to each member of this House.
 
LL/34937
109.J.F. Standiford
n.d.
Untitled

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
J.F. Standiford - The Only U.S. Licensed Photographer in the Indian Territory. With Resident and Gallery Head-Quarters at Muskogee, Creek Nation.
 
"I make regular yearly visits to Tahleqah, Vinita, Eufaula, Wagoner and other important points in the Territory with my portable gallery."
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9438
110.Clark
n.d.
[USA]

Carte de visite, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9386
111.Bradley & Rulofson
n.d.
Backmark for ""Bradley & Rulofson" of San Francisco.

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
429 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cal.
 
Includes the additional feature: "Have the only Elevator connected with Photography in the World". Not only was the elevator a convenience for customers as studios had to be on upper floors to get the maximum light through their skylights but it also indicated that this gallery applied the latest technologies and this was a marketing point.
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9448
112.Hughes (London)
n.d.
Backmark for "Hughes - Day & Electric Light Studios"

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
433, Strand, W.C. [London]
 
This backmark is unusual in that the advertises the "Day & Electric Light Studios". The use of electric light was seen as a novelty and therefore was used not only as a technological innovation but also as a marketing point highlighting that the studio was applying the latest in technology.
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9454
113.Robert Bingham
1862 (after)
Reverse of a CDV for [Robert] Bingham

Carte de visite, back
Private collection of John Toohey
The phrase "Inventeur du Procédé Collodion" is significant as Frederick Scott Archer is acknowledged as the inventor of the wet collodion process. Bingham was aware of the potential and possibilities in 1847.
 
LL/32368
114.1876
Second-Hand Lenses, Cameras, and Apparatus by all the finest makers - W. Morley, London

Advert
Google Books
Advert included in P. Piquepé "Practical treatise on enamelling and retouching in photography" (London: Piper & Carter, 1876)
 
LL/35556
115.J.G. Vail
n.d.
[USA]

Carte de visite, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
Patrons will please remember that dark drapery, such as black, brown, green and the darker shades of red, make the the clearest looking pictures. Blue, pink, purple, and the light shades of red take light.
 
Clear sunny days are best for taking Babies and small children.
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9391
116.Negretti & Zambra
1853 (or later)
Negretti & Zambra Photographer booth

Stereocard
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
This photograph was probably taken at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham - where Negretti & Zambra were the official photographers from 1853 onwards.
 
LL/11636
117.Negretti & Zambra
1853 (or later)
Negretti & Zambra Photographer booth (Detail)

Stereocard
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
This photograph was probably taken at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham - where Negretti & Zambra were the official photographers from 1853 onwards.
 
This photograph is taken from one half of a stereocard.
 
LL/11637
118.T.T. Sweeney
1870
Exhibition of the National Photographic Association, 1870

Albumen print
7.5 x 5 in (image) 9.25 x 6 in (mount)
 
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#20 / 215)
 
There is great detail in the image, we see clearly the following names; Scovil, Bierstadt and others as well as cameras, viewers and photographs.
 
LL/31531
119.Unidentified photographer / artist
1876
Photographic Hall of the International Centennial Exhibition of 1876, Philadelphia

Albumen print
7.75 x 4.75 in (image) 9.25 x 6 in (mount)
 
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#20 / 216)
 
There is a lot of detail in this image, we clearly see a Marcy Stereopticon in the glass cabinet center right, an advertisement for micro photographs and photographic prints galore.
 
LL/31532
120.London Stereoscopic Company
1862
No. 54 - The French Photographic Gallery

Stereocard, half
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
Accession number: 2017.0017
 
Includes the booth of Richebourg, a camera and lens maker and that of H. Corbin.
 
LL/23510
121.Charles Thurston Thompson
1858
Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Société Française de photographie at the South Kensington Museum

Albumen print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum no. 2715-1913
 
Thompson's view of the 1858 Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Société Française de photographie at the South Kensington Museum is the earliest known photograph of a photographic exhibition. It shows a densely-packed gallery of photographs displayed in what was then called the Refreshment upper room.
 
LL/33791
122.Charles Thurston Thompson
1858
Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Société Française de photographie at the South Kensington Museum - Fenton's 'Head of Homer' situated in the 1858 Exhibition (close-up)

Albumen print, detail
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum no. 2715-1913
 
LL/33793
123.Roger Fenton
1855 (ca)
Head of Homer

Salted paper print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum no. 40:810
 
This photograph can be seen in Charles Thurston Thompson's view of the 1858 Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Société Française de photographie at the South Kensington Museum is the earliest known photograph of a photographic exhibition. It shows a densely-packed gallery of photographs displayed in what was then called the Refreshment upper room.
 
LL/33794
124.Centennial Photographic Co.
1876?
Group-Centennial Photographic Co.'s employees

Albumen print
44 x 54 cm
 
Free Library of Philadelphia
Collection: Centennial Exhibition, Item No: c042471
 
Architects: H.J. Schwarzmann & Hugh Kafka.
 
Group photo of employees of the Centennial Photographic Company posing on the porch of the Photographic Association Studio.
 
LL/41300
125.Centennial Photographic Co.
1876?
Trapp & Munch's exhibit-Photographic Hall

Albumen print
21 x 26 cm
 
Free Library of Philadelphia
Collection: Centennial Exhibition, Item No: c021233
 
"Trapp & Munch Friedberg near Frankfurt on the Main Germany Manufactory of albumen paper and photographic chemicals Founded 186?…"--Display poster.
 
Exhibit title: Trapp & Munch, Friedberg, Exhibit #228, Photographic Exhibition Building, Bldg. #104.
 
Framed photographs of people and buildings developed using Trapp & Munch's make of albumen paper.
 
LL/41299
126.Centennial Photographic Co.
1876?
F. Gutekunst's exhibit - Photographic Hall

Stereoview
11 x 18 cm
 
Free Library of Philadelphia
Collection: Centennial Exhibition, Item No: c061420
 
Exhibit title: F. Gutekunst, Exhibit #46, Photographic Exhibition Building, Bldg. #104.
 
LL/41303
127.Centennial Photographic Co.
1876?
Wilson, Hood & Co.'s exhibit - Photographic Hall

Stereoview
11 x 18 cm
 
Free Library of Philadelphia
Collection: Centennial Exhibition, Item No: c061934
 
Exhibit title: Wilson, Hood, & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., Exhibit #60, Photographic Exhibition Building, Bldg. #104.
 
LL/41304
128.Unidentified photographer
1889 (ca)
The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company stand at a trade fair

Kodak circular snapshot print
National Science and Media Museum
Ref Number: 1990-5036/6004/6
 
LL/42470
129.Unidentified photographer / artist
1890s (ca)
An English Camera Club outing

Albumen print
5.25 x 8.25 in
 
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#20 / 214)
 
LL/31530
130.Frances Benjamin Johnston
1890 (ca)
Frances Benjamin Johnston and Washington Camera Club looking at pictures

Photographic print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-83118 (b&w film copy neg.)
 
LL/37119
131.Frances Benjamin Johnston
1900
International Congress of Photography, Paris

Photographic print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-83127 (b&w film copy neg.)
 
Photographers coming down steps with cameras.
 
LL/37122
   
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