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19th Century Itinerant Photographers
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1.Josiah Johnson Hawes
n.d.
The photographic wagon of J.J. Hawes, 19 Tremont Row Boston

Stereocard
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
This detailed view clearly shows the photographs of Boston taken by Josiah Johnson Hawes fixed to the side of the wagon. Closer examination reveals that these could be protected by a canvas flap.
 
LL/9833
2.Josiah Johnson Hawes
n.d.
The photographic wagon of J.J. Hawes, 19 Tremont Row Boston (Detail)

Stereocard
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
This detailed view clearly shows the photographs of Boston taken by Josiah Johnson Hawes fixed to the side of the wagon. Closer examination reveals that these could be protected by a canvas flap.
 
Also note the stereo camera on the tripod.
 
LL/9834
3.Carleton E. Watkins
n.d.
B 3542. Primitive Mining. the Rocker. Calaveras Co., Cal.
[New Boudoir Series]

Boudoir card
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 186)
 
LL/11455
4.Roger Fenton
1855
The artist's van [The photographic van with Sparling on the box]

Salt paper print
17.5 x 16.5 cm
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-9240 - PH - Fenton (R.), no. 122 (A size) [P&P]
 
LL/8175
5.Roger Fenton
1855, 10 November
Mr. Fenton's Photographic Van. - From the Crimean Exhibition

Magazine illustration
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100442890
 
"Mr. Fenton's Crimean Photographs." Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, November 10, 1855; pg. 557; Issue 769
 
LL/36711
6.Roger Fenton
1855, 10 November
Mr. Fenton's Photographic Van. - From the Crimean Exhibition

Magazine illustration
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100442890
 
"Mr. Fenton's Crimean Photographs." Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, November 10, 1855; pg. 557; Issue 769
 
LL/36712
7.Roger Fenton
1855
Cooking house, 8th Hussars

Salted paper print
16 x 21 cm
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-9344
 
Soldiers standing and sitting around cooking pots as a cook ladels food into a bowl; in the background stands a woman and on the left is the side of Fenton's photographic van.
 
LL/36820
8.Roger Fenton
1855
Cooking house, 8th Hussars

Salted paper print
16 x 21 cm
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-47542
 
Soldiers standing and sitting around cooking pots as a cook ladles food into a bowl; in the background stands a woman and on the left is the side of Fenton's photographic van.
 
LL/36821
9.Mathew Brady's Studio
1862
Brady Gallery photographic team for the Civil War, Berlin, Maryland

Albumen print
Private collection of Larry West
Courtesy of Larry J. West, © West Companies, Inc., 2005. [From the book: Tokens of Affection and Regard]
 
From left to right:
 
Silas Holmes
Stephen (a cook)
E.T. Whitney
Hodges
Jim (teamster)
Mathew Brady
David B. Woodbury
 
One of the rare photographs that shows the people who actually took the photography for Brady.
 
Published in the Image of War Series, NHS, vol I, p.423.
 
LL/8597
10.Timothy H. O'Sullivan
n.d.
View of the Petersburg Gas Works
[Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 81]

Albumen print
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 213)
 
A forceful architectural image with light grasses in the foreground. O'Sullivan's PHOTOGRAPH WAGON from the Engineer Department is parked at the right.
 
Attribution to Timothy H. O'Sullivan comes from the authoratitive work on the subject E.F. Bleiler (1959) Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (New York, Dover Publications)
 
Negative by David Knox. May, 1865. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Incidents of the War. View of the Petersburg Gas Works. Published by Philp & Solomon, Washington. Positive by A. Gardner, 511 7th Street, Washington
 
LL/11462
11.Timothy H. O'Sullivan
n.d.
View of the Petersburg Gas Works [Detail]
[Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 81]

Albumen print
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 213)
 
A forceful architectural image with light grasses in the foreground. O'Sullivan's PHOTOGRAPH WAGON from the Engineer Department is parked at the right.
 
Attribution to Timothy H. O'Sullivan comes from the authoratitive work on the subject E.F. Bleiler (1959) Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (New York, Dover Publications)
 
"Negative by David Knox. May, 1865. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Incidents of the War. View of the Petersburg Gas Works. Published by Philp & Solomon, Washington. Positive by A. Gardner, 511 7th Street, Washington"
 
LL/11463
12.H. Gurlitz
1860s (ca)
Harry Gurlitz's Photograph Gallery

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35887
13.Henry Beaufoy Merlin (1830-1873) or Charles Bayless (1850-1897)
1872 (ca)
View of buildings and Beaufoy Merlin's mobile photographic studio standing in Mudgee Road, Tambaroora, New South Wales

Albumen print
6 x 9.4 ins
 
National Library of Australia
nla.pic-vn4732019
 
In: Album of photographs of gold mining, buildings, residents and views at Hill End and environs, New South Wales, 1872-1873.
 
Part of: B.O. Holtermann archive of Merlin and Bayliss photographic prints of New South Wales and Victoria.
 
Inscription: "80016"--Negative number in pencil below image.
 
Variously attributed to Charles Bayliss and Beaufoy Merlin.
 
LL/39402
14.Henry Beaufoy Merlin (1830-1873) or Charles Bayless (1850-1897)
1872 (ca)
Dead tree trunk with pigeoncotes suspended by local storekeepers, and the horse-drawn mobile photographic studio of Beaufoy Merlin to the left, Mudgee Road, Tambaroora, New South Wales

Albumen print
6 x 9.5 cm
 
National Library of Australia
nla.pic-vn4733862
 
In: Album of photographs of gold mining, buildings, residents and views at Hill End and environs, New South Wales, 1872-1873.
 
Part of: B.O. Holtermann archive of Merlin and Bayliss photographic prints of New South Wales and Victoria.
 
Inscription: "80005"--Negative number in pencil below image.
 
Variously attributed to Charles Bayliss and Beaufoy Merlin.
 
LL/39403
15.Zangaki Brothers
1870-1880
The Sphinx [Showing one of the Zangaki brothers and their "Dark-Room-Car"]

Albumen, detail
10 x 8 ins (approx.)
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
In April 2006 this image was sold by E-Bay seller "photobazaar" of Austria as reported by Peter Searle. The current whereabouts of this image is not known and I would be most interested to learn further details. (Alan Griffiths, 10 October 2010)
 
For another copy see "Le Sphinx et les pyramides, Chephren et Chéops", Bibliothèque Nationale de France, département Société de Géographie, SGE SG WE-175, Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b7702164g (View: 34 of 89)
 
LL/40092
16.Zangaki Brothers
1870-1880
The Sphinx [Showing one of the Zangaki brothers and their "Dark-Room-Car"]

Albumen, detail
10 x 8 ins (approx.)
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
In April 2006 this image was sold by E-Bay seller "photobazaar" of Austria as reported by Peter Searle. The current whereabouts of this image is not known and I would be most interested to learn further details. (Alan Griffiths, 10 October 2010)
 
For another copy see "Le Sphinx et les pyramides, Chephren et Chéops", Bibliothèque Nationale de France, département Société de Géographie, SGE SG WE-175, Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b7702164g (View: 34 of 89)
 
LL/40094
17.Unidentified creator
1875 (ca)
Travelling photographic studio in Germany

Engraving
Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius)
The signs read: "Photographic Studio", "Only 8 days at the local space" and "Guarantee similarity".
 
We are seeking details on where this engraving was originally published.
 
LL/43877
18.Unidentified photographer
1860s-1870s
A photographic studio on wheels, with a tripod mounted camera and a photographic van

Carte de visite
2.25 x 3.75 in (image) 2.5 x 4.125 in (mount)
 
Private collection of Dan Weinstock
LL/39422
19.William Critchfield (Picture Room - IXL)
1872-1873
Untitled

Tintype
Private collection of Andrew Daneman
LL/41715
20.William Critchfield (Picture Room - IXL)
1872-1873
[Rural Iowa]

Tintype
Private collection of Andrew Daneman
LL/41276
21.J.P. Doremus
n.d.
Stereoview of the Doremus Photograph Gallery on a barge that could be towed behind a paddle steamer
[Doremus Views of the Mississipi and its Tributaries]

Stereocard
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
In this unusual photograph of a photographic barge note the glass roofed studio and the photographs hung to the left of the door.
 
Refer also to the article by DuPae and White on Doremus Floating Gallery on page 12, Volume 30, no. 5 of Stereo World.
 
LL/9836
22.J.P. Doremus
n.d.
Stereoview of the Doremus Photograph Gallery on a barge that could be towed behind a paddle steamer (Detail)
[Doremus Views of the Mississipi and its Tributaries]

Stereocard
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
In this unusual photograph of a photographic barge note the glass roofed studio and the photographs hung to the left of the door.
 
Refer also to the article by DuPae and White on Doremus Floating Gallery on page 12, Volume 30, no. 5 of Stereo World.
 
LL/9837
23.Unidentified photographer / artist
1862, 27 April
Diary page with the entry " now travling on the ambrotipe boat"

Diary
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9835
24.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
25.A. Nott
n.d.
Back of carte de visite from A. Nott's, Photograph Car

Carte de visite, back
Private collection of Alan Griffiths
A Photograph Car could be either a wagon on wheels used by an itinerant photographer or, less-commonly, a photographic studio in a railway car.
 
LL/36598
26.A. Nott
n.d.
Back of carte de visite from A. Nott's, Photograph Car

Carte de visite, back, detail
Private collection of Alan Griffiths
A Photograph Car could be either a wagon on wheels used by an itinerant photographer or, less-commonly, a photographic studio in a railway car.
 
LL/36599
27.S.R. Miller
n.d.
Back of carte de visite from S.R. Miller's, Photograph Car

Carte de visite, back
Private collection of Alan Griffiths
A Photograph Car could be either a wagon on wheels used by an itinerant photographer or, less-commonly, a photographic studio in a railway car.
 
LL/36840
28.F. Jay Haynes
n.d.
Haynes' Palace Studio Car

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
Frank Jay Haynes was one of the great railway photographers on the Northern Pacific and this design shows the Haynes' Palace Studio Car with its message that it "Will visit all R. R. Towns in the Northwest".
 
On the side of the car it advertises "National Park Views".
 
[Please note that the scan colors may not exactly match those on the original.]
 
LL/9422
29.F. Jay Haynes
n.d.
Haynes' Palace Studio Car

Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
Frank Jay Haynes was one of the great railway photographers on the Northern Pacific and this design shows the Haynes' Palace Studio Car with its message that it "Will visit all R. R. Towns in the Northwest".
 
On the side of the car it advertises "National Park Views".
 
[Please note that this image has been converted to a grayscale to enhance detail difficult to see on the yellow original.]
 
LL/9423
30.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
31.Unidentified photographer
1905 (ca)
Untitled [Group portrait in front of railroad photographic gallery, Temple, Oklahoma]

Gelatin silver print
20.3 x 25.4 cm
 
DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU
Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Call number: Ag2008.0005
 
Verso: manuscript notation in ink Mr Sutton, Mrs Sutton, Mrs Sallie McCoy, Bonnie and Myrtle; picture made in Temple Okla about 1905.
 
LL/38156
32.Unidentified photographer
1905 (ca)
Untitled [Group portrait in front of railroad photographic gallery, Temple, Oklahoma]

Gelatin silver print, detail
20.3 x 25.4 cm
 
DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU
Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Call number: Ag2008.0005
 
Verso: manuscript notation in ink Mr Sutton, Mrs Sutton, Mrs Sallie McCoy, Bonnie and Myrtle; picture made in Temple Okla about 1905.
 
LL/38157
33.Palace R.R. Photograph Car Co.
1880s (ca)
Back of cabinet card from Photographed by the Palace R.R. Photograph Car Co. [USA]

Cabinet card, back
Private collection of Alan Griffiths
LL/40308
34.Braman's Daguerrean Studio
n.d.
Advertising card for Braman‘s Daguerrean Studio

Advert
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
This advert is unusual as it is for a traveling Daguerrean Studio where the space at the lower part could be filled in as required.
 
Note also that the photographer also creates photographic jewelry.
 
LL/9862
35.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Button's Daguerrean Gallery

Broadside
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9644
36.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Detail from a document for a traveling Daguerreotypist.
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9898
37.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
38.E.H. Wood
n.d.
Wood Has Come! - Advertisement for a traveling photographer
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9901
39.E.H. Wood
n.d.
Wood Has Come! - Advertisement for a traveling photographer (Detail)
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9902
40.E.H. Wood
n.d.
Wood Has Come! - Advertisement for a traveling photographer (Detail)
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
Note the designs with the open carte de visite album and the photographer at work.
 
LL/9903
41.E.H. Wood
n.d.
Wood Has Come! - Advertisement for a traveling photographer (Detail)
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
This section of the advertisement requires careful study as it is significant.
 
The document was printed during or soon after the American Civil War and we know this because of the background of the "Army of the Potomac" and this was a time of transition in photographic processes. Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes were single positives that were purchased as soon as they were made. With the negative processes the person had to return to the studio to obtain the final print or have it sent on. This added a level of uncertainty to the photographer unless he received payment in advance and one of the paragraphs explains this to the public.
 
LL/9904
42.W. Stevens
1904
Advertisement for tintypes

Tintype, advertisement
Charles Schwartz Ltd
Courtesy of Charles Schwartz Ltd (www.cs-photo.com - #9215)
 
From the reverse of a tintype mounted in a red paper frame is a sketch of a tent which advertises tintypes. Banners on tent read:
 
"Tin-Type Buttons-Just out-they are hot stuff"
 
LL/9063
43.Unidentified photographer
1870 (ca)
Two Photographers in Front of Tent

Tintype
4 1/2 x 6 3/4 in
 
Paul Cava Fine Art
Courtesy of Paul Cava Fine Art
 
LL/10832
44.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
The Sea Wall at St. Augustine, Florida showing the tent of an itinerant photographer, advertising "Photographs, Tin Types and Views" and the photographers name, "G. E. Gould."

Albumen print
4.5 x 7.75 in (image) 5.25 x 8.5 in (mount)
 
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#20 / 217)
 
LL/31533
45.W.M. Chase
1866-1874
Artist's Camp of W.M. Chase, Niagara Falls
[Picturesque Views of all Countries, Gems of Beauty and Art, Architecture and Landscape. Wonders of Ancient Ruins, Mountain, Valley and Stream.]

Stereocard, yellow mount
Charles T. Joyce Collection
"With the Stereoscope, by the fireside, one can wander through strange cities, over bleak mountains and sunny valleys. There are as many beauties lurking in a Stereograph as there are flowers that blush unseen in the meadows." W. M. Chase
 
Date is based on a stereocard taken about the same time where a copy of the magazine Every Sunday can be seen. The magazine was published from 1866 to 1874. (Information posted to Facebook, "I Collect Stereoviews" page, by Beverly Wilgus, 17 April 2015)
 
LL/59436
46.W.M. Chase
1866-1874
Artist's Camp of W.M. Chase [Niagara Falls]
[American Views]

Stereocard, yellow mount
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
Date is based on the copy of the magazine Every Sunday that can be seen. The magazine was published from 1866 to 1874. (Information posted to Facebook, "I Collect Stereoviews" page, by Beverly Wilgus, 17 April 2015)
 
LL/59437
47.Morse
1860s (ca)
Morse's Photographs - Tent in use

Carte de visite
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35885
48.Morse
1860s (ca)
Morse's Photographs - Tent in use

Carte de visite, trimmed
Private collection of Laddy Kite
LL/35886
49.Charles Wallace Jacob Johnson
n.d.
Photograph Gallery Tent

Photographic print
5 x 8 ins
 
California State Library
Record no: 001389617
 
Monterey County, California, USA.
 
LL/38278
50.Unidentified photographer
1890 (ca)
Beach photographer

Kodak circular snapshot
National Science and Media Museum
Kodak Collection, Inventory no: 1990-5036/6004/9
 
A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of a beach photographer with his portable darkroom. For many years beach photographers were a common sight at the seaside. They took cheap, often technically poor, 'while-you-wait' portraits as souvenirs.
 
The origins of popular photography can be traced back to 1888 when George Eastman (1854 - 1932) patented the first Kodak camera. A small box camera it was sold ready-loaded with a roll of negative stripping paper providing 100 circular pictures 2.5 inches (64mm) in diameter. In 1889 Eastman introduced the No 2 Kodak camera which took slightly larger circular photographs, 3.5 inches in diameter.
 
Originally a shooting term, the word 'snapshot' was first linked with photography in the late 1850s, when it was used to describe a photograph taken with a brief exposure. Over time, snapshot came to mean any amateur photograph taken with a simple camera. Snapshots are informal, personal records of everyday life and experiences.
 
LL/51620
51.Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
1905 (ca)
Beach photographer

Photograph
National Science and Media Museum
Kodak Collection, Inventory no: 1990-5036/6002/0074
 
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe is best known for his naturalistic and spontaneous style of photography, especially his portrayals of Whitby's fishing community. He was a founder member of The Linked Ring Brotherhood and was made an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society in 1941.
 
LL/51621
52.W.H. Pearse
n.d.
The Algonquin Bon Ton Tent, W.H. Pearse, Prop.

Printed paper
Private collection
LL/38806
53.W.H. Pearse
n.d.
The Algonquin Bon Ton Tent, W.H. Pearse, Prop.

Printed paper
Private collection
LL/38807
54.S.J. Atkinson
n.d.
Advertisement for the Mammoth Traveling Ambrotype Saloon, S.J. Atkinson, Proprietor.

Advert
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9845
55.Unidentified photographer / artist
1868
Travelling box

Book illustration
Google Books
In "A manual of photographic manipulation: treating of the practice of the art; and its Various Applications to Nature (Second edition)" by Lake Price (London, John Churchill & Sons, 1868), p.192
 
LL/34516
56.Unidentified photographer / artist
1873
Portable darkroom (open and closed)

Book illustration
Google Books
In "The Silver Sunbeam (Eighth edition)" by J. Towler (New York: E.& H.T. Anthony & Co., 1873), p.472
 
LL/34523
57.Unidentified photographer / artist
1873
Photographer at work

Book illustration
Google Books
In "The Silver Sunbeam (Eighth edition)" by J. Towler (New York: E.& H.T. Anthony & Co., 1873), p.546, Fig.21
 
Figure 21 is an engraving - of the best and most approved photographic dark tent we have ever seen. It has the advantage, also, of cheapness.
 
LL/34524
58.Unidentified photographer / artist
1878
A Dark Tent

Book illustration
Google Books
Published in W. de Wiveleslie Abney, F.R.S. "A Treatise on Photography" (London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1878), p.224
 
LL/34550
59.1846, 1 October
Premium Daguerreotype Portraits, At Gavit's well known Galleries, No. 6 Second Floor Exchange, Albany

Advert
Google Books
Advert was published in "The Cultivator" (Albany), Vol.III, No.10, October 1846, p.326
 
LL/34658
60.Unidentified photographer / artist
1864
William Henry Hide - Traveling ambrotypist in 1858

Book page
Google Books
Published in "Hyde Geneaology; or the Descendants, in the Female as well as the Male Lines from William Hyde, of Norwich" by Reuben H. Walworth (Albany: J. Munsell, two volumes) p.363
 
LL/34803
   
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