2021 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Unwilling Portraits: A Glimpse into the St. Louis Rogues' Gallery — Shayne Davidson
A Time of Discovery: The Isaac Hayes 1860-1861 Polar Expedition — Leonard A. Walle
Myron Kimball
— Jeremy Rowe
A Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron Album, including Miscellaneous Cartes
— David Holcomb
Scratching the Surface, Part II: Some Thoughts on the Signed Daguerreotype
— Glenn Willumson
Zoar: Ohio's Plaee of Religious Refuge (and Communism)
— Wm. B. Becker
Horne & Thornthwaite and Early Stereoscopic Dry Plate Cameras
— Jeremy Rowe
Pathfinder: The Visual Journey of Antonio Schranz
— David R. Hanlon
Patents for Thermoplastic Wall Frames
— Paul K. Berg
Gustavus W. Pach: A Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographer
— Gary D. Saretzky
Pondering the Association of Samuel Peck and Holmes, Booth & Haydens
— Paul K. Berg
Horology in Photography: Timekeeping and Timekeepers in Photographs
— Bob Frishman
Portfolio
— Mike Medhurst
2019-20 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Twenty-Five Years of Daguerreian-Era Images at Cowan's
— C. Wesley Cowan
He Would Have Been Burned as as Sorcerer
— Karin J. Bohleke
The Moon, 6 August 1851
— M. Susan Barger
A Bridge Between Cultures
— Wm. B. Becker
All the Latest Improvements
— David R. Hanlon
My Journey with the Daguerreotype
— Hengli Ge
Robert Cornelius: An Unknown Sitter Identified
— Bernard Hildebrandt
The Case of the Empty Chair
— Mark Koenigsberg
Nathan Parker's War of Words with Isaac Rehn
— Pamela C. Powell
The Perplexing Plates of Girault de Prangey
— Ariadna and Grant Romer
An Early Presidential Rally
— Joe Bauman
Early Photographic Headstones of Maine
— Elliot Adrian Conte
Pioneering Daguerreian and Photographic Collector Albert Raborn Phillips Jr.
— Jeremy Rowe
Warranted to Give Satisfaction: Daguerreotypes by Jeremiah Gurney
— Ann M. Shumard
Homage to a Daguerreian Artist, Irving Pobboravsky
— Leonard A. Walle
Irving Pobboravsky
— Mike Robinson
A Few Thoughts about Researching a Carte-de-Visite
— Jeremy Rowe
Scratching the Surface: The Artist-Signed Daguerreotype
— Glenn Willumson
Frederick Birkhill and a Teacher with Her Students
— Leonard A. Walle
The Robert Cornelius Project
— Rachel K. Wetzel
Then and Now: Searching for Gold Rush Daguerreotype Camera Locations
— Bob Zeller
Portfolio
2017-18 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Collecting Early Photography for The National Portrait Gallery
— Ann M. Shumard
Portraits and Headshots of Edwin Booth
— Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
The Price of Magic: The Arrival of the Daguerreotype in St. Louis
— David R. Hanlon
George Foster Emmons and the Emmons Daguerreotypes
— Jeremy Rowe
From Newark to New Zealand: Frank R. Huff, Photographer
— Gary D. Saretzky
Of Comets and Meteors
— Jane Turano-Thompson
Moon on a Silver Plate
— Jan K. Herman
Isaac Daniels, The Starving Revolutionary Veteran
— Joe Bauman
Photographing Revolutionary War Veterans
— Joe Bauman
The Beakerel Process: Sensitizing Daguerreotypes Without Fuming
— John R. Hurlock
A Twin Paradox
— Mike Robinson and Edward P. Vicenzi
A Forgotten Daguerreotype: The Path To Discovery
— Leonard A. Walle
The Stratton Mountain Tragedy
— Richard Alan Wood
Martin Van Buren by William & Frederick Langenheim: A Hyalotype, circa 1851
— Wm. B. Becker
Portrait of the Locomotive Tioga
— Arthur Krim
Bowery Daguerreotypists
— Jeremy Rowe
Origin of the Design of the Voyage of Life Series of Thermoplastic Cases
— Paul K. Berg
A Tale of Two Collectors
— Sean William Nolan
Pioneer Collector Julian Wolff
— Jeremy Rowe, et al.
Irv Pobboravsky: A Memorial
— Fiona Christie
Portfolio
2016 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Topaz The Portrait Painter: 19th-Century French Political Satire and the Daguerreotype
— Leonard A. Walle
A Connecticut Yankee Chronicle: Epaphras Hoyt and His Camera Obscura
—Nicholas M. Graver
Past Was Prologue: Ruminations of a Practical Daguerreotypist
— Jerry Spagnoli
A Swiss Homecoming: Charles Gleyre’s The Romans Passing Under the Yoke in Daguerreotype
— Steven F. Joseph
Brass Tacks: The Impact of Scovill Brass on Early Photography
— Jeremy Rowe
The Daguerreotype and the 1851 Great Exhibition
— Anthony Hamber
Unearthing the Daguerreotype: A Scientific Study
— Patrick Ravines and Rob McElroy
The Flip Side of CDVs
— Richard Sheaff
E. C. Hawkins: History of a Photographic Pioneer
— David R. Hanlon
Signor Blitz: The Master of Magic
— Russell Norton
Bounty from the Bowery: August Obermüller and the Marketing of Early American Tattoo Culture
— Margaret Hodges, Derin Bray, and Carmen Forquer-Nyssen
“In Camp” with Artists
— Leonard A. Walle
Reflections in a Mirrored Eyes
— Binh Danh
Of Plates and Pirates: The Mystery of a Man with a Skull
— Michael G. Jacob
The One that (Almost) Got Away: A 38-Year Odyssey
— Jeremy Rowe
A Fascinating Daguerreian Broadside
— Nicholas M. Graver
Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
2015 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Through the Looking Glass: A Portfolio From the Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
Herman Haupt's truss bridge and model
— Mark S. Johnson
Herman Haupt's "Reminiscences of Early History of the PA Railroad Co."
— Edited by Jonathan W. White
It Was Not Supposed to Turn Out This Way: Sewing and Fitting Errors as Indicators of Social Class
— Karin J. Bohleke, Ph.D.
Pen and Camera: An Enduring Partnership
— Joe Bauman
First American Daguerreian Instruction Manual — U.S. Photographic Institute, Boston, 1841, John Plumbe, Jr.
— Clifford Krainik
Robert Munroe, Allegheny City's Premier Operator; 1854-1859
— Thomas M. Weprich
Henry Fitz, Jr: A Portfolio of Open Research
— Edited by Mark S. Johnson
Silver Image
— Robert Caldwell
Identifying Stages of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Images
— Karin J. Bohleke, Ph.D.
Lincoln and the Lockwoods
— Joe Bauman
Early New Zealand Daguerreotypes
— Shaun Higgins
Jeffery by Finley
— Nicholas M. Graver
Portfolio of Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes
2014 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Assimilation, Amalgamation and Defiance: The "Admirable Figure of the Negro" and African American Dress in Daguerreotypes and Early Images
— Karin J. Bohleke, Ph.D.
The California Gold Rush: Approaches to Producing Daguerreotype Views: An Examination of Views from the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection at the Archive of Modern Conflict, Toronto
— Marcos R. Armstrong
George S. Cook, Itinerant Daguerreotypist in Georgia, 1848-1850
— E. Lee Eltzroth
Early Boston Photography: Charles E. & Luther Holman Hale — Brothers in the Art of Daguerre
— Ron Polito
From Indian Territory to the Kingdom of Hawaii: Souvenirs of a Nineteenth Century Missionary
— John A. Monroe
"Man's Perfect Image and Identity": Notes on an Early Daguerreotype of Henry Fitz, Jr.
— Wm. B. Becker
A Lasting Touch: Corporeal Affect and the Photograph in Nineteenth-Century America
— Dr. Sarah M. Iepson
Put on Your Polka; It's Cold Outside!
— Karin J. Bohleke
Saved from the Dump
— Susan D. Abele
Portfolio of Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes
2013 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Daguerre's Dioramas and "HTL" and "Vue Par Transparence" Postcards
— William R. Alschuler
Sterling C. McIntyre's Panoramic Views of San Francisco
— Mike Robinson
- Conservation of the Panorama
- Portsmouth Square and Great Conflagrations
The Brady-Brown Connection and other Signed-in-the-Image Daguerreotypes
—Mark Koenigsberg
The Van Loans: American Daguerreotypists
— Rebecca Norris
The Collins Ledgers — An American Antiquarian Society Treasure-Trove
— Rebecca Norris
My Grandmother's Brooch
— Karin J. Bohleke
Thomas Lincoln Casey (1831-1896)
— Wm. B. Becker
Sarah Porter, A Gothic Story
— Kerry Philpott
Close But No Seegar
— Joe Bauman
Daguerreotypes in Duplicate: A Survey of Copy Photography
— Erin Waters
Two Gems from the State Library and Archives of Florida
— Jon Grandage, Archives Historian & Joanna Norman, Archives Supervisor
The Fillmore Lockets
— Alan Johanson
Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
2012 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Scenes from the Isenburg Collection at AMC Toronto
— A Daguerreian Annual Portfolio
Moses Warren & the Quinebaug Gold Company
— Mark S. Johnson
The Itinerant Daguerreotypist: A Case Study in Pre-Unified Northern Italy
— Gabriella Bologna and Ken Jacobson
Western Daguerreian Adventures: or Record-Breaking Procrastination
— Eric Rickart
The Silver Plate & The Paper Trail
— Wm. B. Becker
All That Remains: Tracking a Pioneer Daguerreian
— Greg Drake
Dog Gone: Man's Best Friend and the Daguerreotype
— Gary Bart
William Walker: Nothing as it Seems
— Paul Bolcik
Sleuthing the "Ordinary" Daguerreotype
— Alan Johanson
Niepce's pre-1833 Photographic Images Analyzed
— Dusan C. Stulik & Art Kaplan
Portfolio of Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes
— A Daguerreian Annual Portfolio
2011 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
The Floyd & Marion Rinhart Collection at the Ohio State University
- A Portfolio of "Details"
- Floyd & Marion Rinhart: Pioneer Historians
of Photography
— Mary Sayer Hammond
- A Portfolio of Costume
— Joan Severa
- Herr Driesbach, Lord of the Brute Creation
— Stuart Thayer
- A Selection of Daguerreotypes
The Mysterious "Madame Whernert" Exposed
— Clifford & Michele Krainik
Backgrounds in Daguerreotypes: Part II
— Remembering Joan Murray, by Dennis Waters
A White Slave Girl "Mulatto Raised by Charles Sumner"
— Joan Gage
Henry Clay Yields Senate Floor to Benton
— Clifford & Michele Krainik
Visionary Company: A Collector's Look at Eight Modern Daguerreotypists
— Craig Schneider
John William Draper's Experiments in Light, Photography, and Photolithography
— Gregory A. Wickliff, Ph.D.
Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
2009-2010 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
The Face of America: Early Photographic Portraits from the Collections of George and Susan Whiteley
— George & Susan Whiteley
More from the Gold Fields: The Gulick Brothers
— Jane L. Aspinwall
Engraved Portraits from Daguerreotypes Published in The American Whig Review, 1845-1852
— Clifford and Michele Krainik
A Secret Society Exposed: Daguerreotypes of American Odd Fellows
— Michael P. Musick
L.E.D. Daguerre: Becquerel Development of Daguerreotypes with LEDs
— John Hurlock
L’Omnibus Pittoresco Naples, 2 November, 1843
— Translated by Michael G. Jacob
A Remoistenable Adhesive Paper for Binding Daguerreotype Plate Packages
— Jiuan-Jiuan Chen
Our Twelfth Annual Special Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
2008 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
In Living Color: Process and Materials of the Hand Colored Daguerreotype
— Sara H. Ferguson
Ray Phillips: From Photographs to Phonographs
— René Rondeau
Engraved Portraits from Daguerreotypes Published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1842-1857
— Clifford and Michele Krainik
Found Treasure: The Bond & Mollyneaux California Daguerreotype
— Jane L. Aspinwall
Theodore Brunell “Photographer Royal”
— Richard Samways
Samuel F. B. Morse’s Daguerreotype Practice
— Sarah Kate Gillespie
Hiram W. Hayden and the Brass Mat for Daguerreotype Cases
— Paul K. Berg
Three Texts from Glances at the Metropolis: A Hundred Illustrated Gems
— Gary W. Ewer
Emanuel von Friedrichsthal — The First Daguerreotypist in Yucatán
— Ulla Fischer-Westhauser
Catching a Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860. Selections from an Exhibition at the Library Company of Philadelphia
— Sarah J Weatherwax
Historic Ohio Daguerreotype Identified Oberlin College and Town
— Paul K. Berg
Our Eleventh Annual Special Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
2007 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
The Southworth and Hawes Studio:
A Virtual Tour of their Operating Room
— Mike Robinson
Photographing Niagra
— Clayton Lewis
A “Dark Horse” in Sunlight and Shadow:
Daguerreotypes of President James K. Polk
— Clifford Krainik
Kingston Daguerreotype Returns to Canada
— Robert Lansdale, assisted by Jennifer McKendry
Henry Earle Insley: Artist and Entrepreneur
— Jane L. Aspinwall
Richard Beard’s Scottish and Irish Patents, and the Development of the Daguerreotype in Those Countries
— John Hannavy
“This My Likeness”: The Facts in the Case of the Notorious Dr. R. H. Collyer
— Bernhard Hildebrandt
“Photographic Phenomena” in George Cruikshank’s Omnibus
— Gary W. Ewer
Our Tenth Annual, Special Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
PATRIOTS: The Lives and Looks of Eight American Revolutionaries
— Joseph M. Bauman
The Making of a History: The Origins of American Photography
— Keith F. Davis
Discovered: An Unknown Brady Portrait of President James K. Polk and Members of His Cabinet
— Clifford Krainik
First to the Great West
— R. Bruce Duncan
Modern Reproductions and Replicas of Daguerreian Cases
— Paul K. Berg
Restoration of the Daguerre Diorama in the Church of Bry-sur-Marne, France. 2006-2010 Project
— Jean-Pierre Spilbauer
2006 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Images from Melbourne’s Past
— Alan Elliott
A Selection of Daguerreotypes from The Pencil of Nature
— The Society’s 2006 Symposium Exhibition
The Eye Perfected: The Daguerreotypes of T. P. and D. C. Collins
— Rebecca Norris
A Daguerreotype, a Braided Lovelock, and a Billet-Doux
— Robert E. Haines
“Ultimate Success is Certain”:
The Life and Art of Samuel A. Bemis
— Robert W. Bermudes, Jr.
Library of Congress Feature, “L. J. Phillips Daguerreian Rooms”
The Emergence of Commercial Photography in Boston: 1840-1841
— Ron Polito
“It Seems An Age Since I Left Home”:
The Letters of N. D. Stanwood
— David Petruzelli
Light Through the Smoke:
A Short Discussion of Pittsburgh Daguerreotypists
— Thomas M. Weprich
A Special Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
2005 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolio:
Images of Colonial Empire: British Military Daguerreotypes
Part 1: The British Sea Services
— Dr. William J. Schultz
Table of Contents
Daguerreotypes of the Paris Exposition Universelle, 1855
— John Hannavy
One and the Same? Miss S. R. Charter, Boston’s First Female Daguerreotypist & Susan R. D. (Charter) Humphrey, Patrician’s Wife
— Ron Polito
The Day Lincoln Lied
— R. Bruce Duncan
A Special Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
The Boyden Daguerreotype Camera
One of America’s First Photographic Instruments
— O. Henry Mace
Trades in Danger of Extinction: A Portfolio from Argentina
— Carlos Darío Albornoz, translated by Andrea Cuarterolo
The Surgeon’s Mate
Revolutionary War Doctor Eneas Munson
— Joe Bauman
Fashioning Photography: The Palais Royal and Early French Studios
— Stephen Monteiro
“Each Button, Button-Hole, and Every Fold”
Dress in the American Daguerreotype Portrait
— Christina Johnson
A Family of Images:
The Shepherd Family of Oneonta Plains, New York
— Robert E. Haines
Daguerreotype Holography
— Shani Miller, Alan Elliott, Jessica Gouthro and Philip Wilksch
2004 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolio:
Exploring the American Frontier
Part I – Legacy of the Land Surveyor in the Daguerreian Era
— Dr. William J. Schultz
Table of Contents
Daguerreotypes from the Newport Historical Society Collection
— Mark S. Johnson
Australia Felix: Douglas T. Kilburn’s Daguerreotype Portraits of Australian Koories, 1847
— Dr. Isobel Crombie
Our Sixth Annual Portfolio of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
Unlocking the Secret:
Hyper-sensitizing Daguerreotypes with Light
— John Hurlock
Portfolio: Images of Surveyors and Surveying Instruments
— Dr. William J. Schultz
Remarkable Legacy: Early Philadelphia Street Views
— Arthur Krim
Shot in Alabama: Daguerreotypy in a Deep South State
— Frances Robb
Checklist of Photographers and Others Associated with Photography in Alabama, 1839–1861
— Compiled by Frances Osborn Robb
Trapping Apparitions:
Daguerreotypes, Mirrors and Mementoes
— Shaun Caton
The Southworth and Hawes Daguerreotypes of Grace Greenwood, “Authoress”
— Howard and Martha Sachs
The Standard Oreo Case & the “Mini” Oreo,
a New Size in Thermoplastic Cases
— Paul K. Berg
McAllister, Crane & Co.
An 1850s Chain Store On The Emigrant Trail
— Elizabeth B. Isenburg
2002-2003 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolio:
Silver Shadows Before the Storm:
The American Military Daguerreotype — Dr. William J. Schultz
Table of Contents
My First Twelve Months as a Daguerreotypist
— David G. Burder
On Not Quite Reuniting a Grand Parlor Stereoscope Pair
— Kenneth E. Nelson
Sally Hewes, Female Daguerreotypist
— Sarah J. Weatherwax
The John Brown Daguerreotypes:
A leader uses his likeness for remembrance and promotion
— Jean Libby
Southern Faces:
Daguerreotypes in the Kenan Research Center Collections at the Atlanta History Center
— Michael Rose
Dentists, Teachers & Milliners:
The First Daguerreotypists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
— Thomas M. Weprich
Our Annual Portfolio: Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
A Tale of Two Daguerreotypes
— Joe Bauman
Whipple’s Dissolving Views
A talk delivered at the Daguerreian Society Symposium
— Sally Pierce
Charles DeForest Fredricks:
A Latin-American Adventure
— Miguel Angel Cuarterolo
The History of the Daguerreotype in Brazil
— Sylvie Pénichon
Secrets of the White Chamber
— Bates Lowry
General Summary of the Daguerreotype
— A selection by M.-A. Gaudin, Translated by Stephen Monteiro
The Physautotype:
The World’s Second Photographic Process
— Jean-Louis Marigner
2001 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolio:
The Passions Series Daguerreotypes: Valentine’s Project to Know Himself
— Joe Struble
Table of Contents
Two Golden Daguerreotypes: A Research Report
— Liesbeth Ruitenberg
You Just Never Know:
The True Story Of An Unusual Daguerreian Adventure
— Joe Pollock
Frozen in Time:
Preserving the Daguerreotype Latent Image
— John Hurlock and Eric Rickart
A Special Portfolio Of Members’ Favorite Daguerreotypes
Open for Business at 535 Broadway:
The Account Books of James Brown, New York Daguerreotypist
— Rob Rudd
"...I Had To Use One of My Bills."
— courtesy Matthew R. Isenburg
Henry Morley, Charles Dickens and the J. J. E. Mayall Studio
— John Hannavy
Letters from Mexico:
Joseph Woollens Writes Home
— Transcribed by Mark Johnson and Terry Mossop
A Special Portfolio of Daguerreotypes Produced in Mexico
Samuel Broadbent, Daguerreian Artist
— Rebecca Norris
Shoot, If You Must, This Old Gray Head
The Daguerreotype of an American Patriot
— Ross J. Kelbaugh
A Case Study: Frederick B. Smith, Herman F. Hartmann and Daguerreotype Case Diesinking in America
— Thomas Beckman
Ramona de Wilson, Beauty and Matriarch
— Leonard Olarsch
2000 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolio:
A Special Portfolio of Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes
Table of Contents
A History of the Daguerreotype in Hong Kong 1839-1880s
— Edwin K. Lai
The Light at the End of the Bromine, The Truth is Out There
— John Hurlock
Dating American Daguerreotypes, 1839-1842
— Dennis A. Waters
The Daguerreotype: Portraiture at the Dawn of Photography
— An Exhibition at Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania, April 28, 2001 - November 24, 2001
The Case of Passmore Williamson
— Pamela C. Powell
Daguerreian Poetry in Naples, 1839
— Michael G. Jacobs
A Special Portfolio of
Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes
— The Daguerreian Society
Hey Kid, Don't You Collect Anything?
— Jack Billington
Doubling the Pleasure: A Portfolio of Twins
from the Collection of Philip and Leslie Gura
— Philip F. Gura
The Making of Twenty Daguerreotypes: A Chronological Account
— Michael Robinson
Mike Robinson's Nude Study
— Craig Schneider
1999 Daguerreian Society Table of Contents
Feature Portfolio:
A Special Portfolio of Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes
Table of Contents
Sun Pictures In Kalamazoo
— Richard W. Welch
The Twentieth Century's First Natural Color Daguerreotypist
— George Gilbert with illustrations provided by Joseph Boudreau and Wm. B. Becker
El Instructor (London, 1834-1845)
An Early Printed Medium for the Expansion of the Daguerreotype in Spanish-speaking Countries
— Roberto A. Ferrari and Abel J. Alexander
The Magic Mirror At Home
— Susan A. Newberry
A Daguerreian Letter 1839
One Person's Opinion Submitted
— Greg French
More than Un Beau Souvenir du Canada
— Joan M. Schwartz
An Expeditionary Daguerreotype by Solomon Carvalho
— Robert Shlaer
Man's Best Friends
— Ross J. Kelbaugh
An Interview with Jerry Spagnoli
A Contemporary Daguerreotypist
— Sarah Morthland
The Ties that Bind
Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families
— Sarah J. Weatherwax
Daguerreian Society Publications Ten-Year Index: 1990-1999
— The Daguerreian Annual Ten-Year Index: 1990-1999, compiled by David Cameron
— Authors who have contributed to the Daguerreian Annuals 1990-1999, compiled by David Cameron
— Daguerreian Society Newsletter Index 1990-1999, compiled by Juliet Cameron
1998 Daguerreian Society Table of Contents
Feature Portfolios:
A Special Portfolio of Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes
A Portfolio of the David Feigenbaum Collection of Southworth & Hawes
— Commentary by Mark S. Johnson, Denise Bethel, Christopher Mahoney, John Wood, Sally Pierce, and Grant Romer
Table of Contents
Dawn of the Daguerreian Era in Baltimore, 1839-1849
— Ross J. Kelbaugh
Reading Daguerreotypes
— Keith F. Davis
The Forgotten Leather and Paper Daguerreotype Case: Its Die Engravers and Manufacturers, Part Two
— Paul K. Berg, M.D.
Southworth & Hawes in The Massachusetts Register
— submitted by Gary W. Ewer
Thank You, Mr. Anderson: The Story of an Amateur Daguerreotypist
— Mark S. Johnson
on reading the daguerreian annual
— poem by Greg French
Iodine and Bromine: Part I
— Charlie Schreiner
"The Twin Daguerreotypes"
— Edward Mervin
Warming Up To Cold Mercury
— John R. Hurlock
Another Brady Case?
— Alan Johanson
Nineteenth Century Photographic Journals
— Carl L. Peterson
1997 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolios:
The American Volunteer Fireman and the Daguerreotype
— Michael J. Novak
Color and the Daguerreotype
— Michael G. Jacob
Table of Contents
Expression: The Soul Of The Daguerreotype
— Charles LeRoy Moore
A Daguerreotype and History by the "Carlos De Forest Fredricks & Ca." Studio
— Carlos G. Vertanessian
In Praise of Scratched Daguerreotypes: Portraits of the Whitridge Brothers
— Rebecca Norris
John Smith and England's Union Cases: A Resumé of Recent Researches
— John Hannavy
Samuel D. Humphrey, Journalist-Photographer: A New Perspective On His Contributions To American Photography
— Jane Rohrschneider
The American Volunteer Fireman and the Daguerreotype
— Michael J. Novak
"American Characteristics: The Daguerreotypist"
— Timothy Shay Arthur
A Preponderance of Evidence: The 1852 Omaha Indian Delegation Daguerreotypes Recovered
— Joanna Cohan Scherer
The Daguerreotype and John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810—1882)
— Richard Morris
Color and the Daguerreotype: "The Great Problem is Fairly Solved..."
— Michael G. Jacob
"The Rise and Fall of the Daguerreotype"
— William H. Sherman
The Growth of Daguerreotype Image Particles, The Movie
— Joe T. Pollock and David Mahesh
The Forgotten Leather and Paper Daguerreotype Case: Its Die Engravers and Manufacturers
— Paul K. Berg, M.D.
1996 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolios:
Southern Shadows: Reflections of a Bygone Era A Portfolio of Images Exhibited At The Atlanta History Center In Conjunction With The Daguerreian Society's 1996 Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia
— Introduction by John Wood
Occupationals, Tableaux, and Narrative Daguerreotypes
— Matthew R. Isenburg
Table of Contents
Otis H. Cooley: Possible Photographer of the Only Known Photograph of Emily Dickinson
— John R. Felix
Vignetted Daguerreotypes: The Evolution of an Art
— Michael G. Jacob
A Window on the Manhattan Metropolis: The Chatham Square Daguerreotype
— Arthur Krim
Fancy Daguerreian Cases
— Paul K. Berg
United States Patents Related to the Practice of Daguerreotypy
— M. Susan Barger
Heliography: The Photographic Process Invented By Nicéphore Niépce Before His Association With Daguerre. New Light on the Invention of Photography.
— Jean-Louis Marignier
Sketches of Paris
— Translated from the French by Sarah Howitt
Daguerreotype Portrait
— Kayla Pobboravsky
"It Was I Who Took the First" An Investigation Into Professor Robert Taft's Assessment of Whether Dr. John William Draper Took the First Portrait
— Howard R. McManus
Copying Methods
— John A. Tennant
Rare Image Of Childhood
— Joan Murray
State of the Art: A Chronology of the Daguerreotype in the Twentieth Century
— Christopher Mahoney
"M.B. Brady, Casemaker, N.Y."
— James Wentworth Szymanski
The Charlie Schreiner Daguerreotype Saloon and Image Parlor
— Charlie Schreiner
Daguerreian Treasures at the Smithsonian Institution
— Howard R. McManus
A Thrilling Desire For Accidental Success
— Kenneth E. Nelson
Faces of Freedom: Portraits from the American Colonization Society Collection
— Carol Johnson
1995 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolios:
Silver & Gold: A Preview of Cased Images from Northern California Collections — Drew Johnson
The Collection of Southworth and Hawes Daguerreotypes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — Anne E. Havinga
Table of Contents
The Editor's Fuming Box
— Laurie A. Baty
The Union Case in Great Britian
— John Hannavy
Two Explorers on the Trail to California: Carvalho and Fremont
— Andrew Rolle
Philip Haas: Lithographer, Print Publisher, and Daguerreotypist
— William and Estelle Marder with Sally Pierce
Charleston & M.P. Simons
— Harvey S. Teal
Noodle's Attempts at Suicide
The Voyage of Captain Lucas and the Daguerreotype to Sydney
— R. Derek Wood
Roderick M., George H., and Henry Hobart Cole: Midwestern Pioneer Photographers
— Jane Rohrschneider
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and Jackson. How They Sat for Their Daguerreotypes
— T. B. Thorpe
Josiah Johnson Hawes, Dies in His Ninety-Fourth Year
Silver & Gold: A Preview of Cased Images from Northern California Collections
— Drew Johnson
The Pencil of Nature in Washington, DC: Daguerreotyping the President
— Thomas M. Weprich
The Daguerreotype
— Mrs. H.G. Gardner
A Re-identification of an African-American Portrait in the 1994 Annual
— Bruce T. Erickson
"Never Give Up; It is Better to Hope than once to Despair": Providence, Rhode Island, and the Daguerreotype
— Maureen Taylor
Theodore Maurisset's "Fantaisies": La Daguerreotypomanie
— Gary W. Ewer
The Most Famous Daguerreian Portrait: Exploring the History of the Dorothy Catherine Draper Daguerreotype
— Howard R. McManus
G.B. Goodman: Australia's First Daguerreotypist
— Sandy Barrie
Farmer and Mechanic, 11 November 1847
A Contrasting Study of Three German Daguerreotypists
— Hans W. Gummersbach
Who in Oslo Would Want a Picture of Theodore Parker
— Sally Pierce
The Inconstant Daguerreotype
"Proud of the Result of my Labor.":Frederick DeBourg Richards (1822-1903)
— Laurie A. Baty
The Collection of Southworth and Hawes Daguerreotypes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
— Anne E. Havinga
". . . A Pleasant Employment for Ladies. . ."
— Roger C. Watson
"Where Were You Last Night at Twelve": A Judicial Sketch
— Chris Steele
1994 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolios:
A Glimpse into the Massachusetts Historical Society Daguerreotype Collection
— Chris Steele
African-American Daguerreotypes
— Matthew R. Isenburg
Table of Contents
The Editors' Fuming Box
— Laurie A. Baty, Matthew R. Isenburg, John Wood
A Mammoth Plate Daguerreotype in Hawaii: The Result of a Diplomatic Indiscretion
— Bruce T. Erickson
Correspondence Re: Captain Elliott
— John McWilliams
If Only Alchemy Were This Easy: A Practical Method of Recovering Gold from Used Gold Toning Solution
— Emily J. Bailey & Clyde H. Barlow
Notes on an Early Daguerreotype of Walt Whitman
— Denise B. Bethel
Monumental Portraits of Baltimore
— Ross J. Kelbaugh
First Photographers Who Worked in Guatemala
— Enrique del Cid F., David Haynes and Birgitta B. Riera, translators
Correspondence: A Tinsmith Daguerreotype
— Harvey Zucker
John Plumbe: America's First Nationally Known Photographer
— Robert Taft, Cliff Krainik
Commentary on Taft
— Cliff Krainik
The Jackson Family in a Daguerreotype and in a Poem
— Chris Steele
My First Daguerreotype
— Shade
Napoleo'n Aubanel's Stereo View of Montevideo
— Miguel Angel Cuarterolo
Some Patents of Note: Early Coloring Patents
— Doug Jordan
Portfolio: A Glimpse into the Massachusetts Historical Society Daguerreotype Collection
— Chris Steele
Mercury & the Daguerreotypist: A Modern Assessment
— Kenneth E. Nelson
Mini-biography: Samuel Wheeler
— John F. Graf
Two Early Ohio Daguerreians
— Donald A. Hutslar
A Visit to Mr. Beard's
— Michael G. Jacob
Art and History
— Drew Heath Johnson
Portfolio: African-American Daguerreotypes
— Matthew R. Isenburg
Vance's Views in St. Louis: An Update
— Dolores Kilgo
The Sincerest Form of Flattery Again
— Kenneth E. Nelson
Imitation Daguerreotypes
— A. J. Jarman
Search & Research: Solving a Daguerreian Mystery
— Ross J. Kelbaugh
Snelling: The Father of Photographic Journalism
— A. J. Olmstead
A Case for Critchlow
— Bethany and Will Ouimet
Mini-biography: Sarah L. (Judd) Eldridge
— Alan Woolworth
Lines Written on Seeing a Daguerreotype Portrait of a Lady
— Elizabeth Sheridan Carey
Striving for Improvement: Additions and Revisions to the 1990, 1991, & 1992 Annuals
— Laurie A. Baty
Five Year Index: 1990-1994
1993 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolios:
Ten Studio Portraits of California Gold Miners — John F. Graf
William H. Rulofson "The P.T. Barnum of American Photography" — Peter E. Palmquist
Table of Contents
The Editor's Fuming Box
— Peter E. Palmquist
Robert H. Vance: Pioneer of the Daguerreotype in Chile
— Abel Alexander
The Man with the Nose: Or, the Jilted Volunteer
— [Reprint from 1846]
Exhuming the Dead of Yerba Buena Cemetery--Interesting Particulars
— [Reprint from 1846]
Woman was Houston's [Texas] First Photographer
J. Lewis Baldwin: Thermoplastic Case Manufacturer
— Paul K Berg
Charles Herbert Tremear: "The Patriarch of Twentieth-Century Daguerreotypy in America"
— Dave Tinder
Brady's FOUR New York City Galleries--Not Three!
— George Gilbert
Vignette: Daguerreian Business Cards
— Ken Appollo
"S.D. Allis, Vera Cruz, 1847"
— Thomas R. Kailbourn
The Daguerreotype in America [reprint from 1896] — Mrs. D.T. Davis
The Daguerreotype In America [rebuttal to Mrs. Davis, 1896] — Julius F. Sachse
The Two Daguerreotypes [reprint from 1853] — William Camp with introduction by John Wood
The Daguerreotype as a Photometer: Spanish Technical Innovations in Photography's Beginnings
— Bernardo Riego
Artists & Daguerreotypists from the United States Census of 1850
Fifteen Years' Experience of a Daguerreotyper [reprint from 1889] — Alexander Beckers
Sachse, Della Porta, and the Rosicrucians: An Introduction to "The Genesis of the Camera"
— Carol Lloyd Wood
The Genesis of the Camera [reprint from 1889] — Julius F. Sachse
J.F. Ryder's Ithaca Days
— William L. Camp
Daguerreian Fakes, Forgeries and Hoaxes
— Harvey S. Zucker
William Herman Rulofson: "The P.T. Barnum of American Photography"
— Peter E. Palmquist
Humphrey's Daguerreian Artist's Register 1850 and 1851
American Photography [A British Account from 1856] — Introduction by John Wood
American Daguerreian Darkroom Equipment Inventory
— John W. Manser
The Daguerreotypes of/by Harvey Zucker
— Harvey S. Zucker
PORTFOLIO--Ten Studio Portraits of California Gold Miners
— John F. Graf
"...and Simons." Montgomery Pike Simons of Philadelphia
— Laurie A. Baty
Early Equipment
— Matthew Isenburg
APPENDIX--Mini Daguerreian Biographies and Chronologies
James B. Marquis
Joseph R. Palmer
William Herman Rulofson (begins p. 137)
Andrew B. Tubbs
Leland Howard Wakefield
Index of Daguerreian Names
1992 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolios:
Twelve Mexican War Portraits — John F. Graf
A 360 Degree Panorama of the City by the Golden Gate — James Caddick and Susan Schwarzenberg
Table of Contents
The Editor's Fuming Box
— Peter E. Palmquist
Oliver B. Evans: Daguerreian Artist of the Niagara Frontier
— Thomas Kailbourn and Graham Garrett
A Daguerreian Report from Down Under
— Sandy Barrie
The "Daguerreotype" [in December 1839] — Lewis Gaylord Clark
The Rinhart Collection of Photographs
— Clyde H. Dilley
Vignette: "The human face divine..."
— Anthony Trollope
PORTFOLIO--Twelve Mexican War Daguerreian Portraits
— John F. Graf
On the Use of Silvered Glass in the Daguerreotype Process
— Henry Draper, M.D.
The American Daguerre Association: Constitution and Bye-Laws as of October 15, 1851
The Diary of Tallmadge Elwell, Pioneer Daguerreotypist, 1852
— James Taylor Dunn
The Beard Photographic Franchise in England: An Overview
— Robert B. Fisher, M.D.
You May See a Stranger...
— Anonymous
Don't Forget to Check Labels for Dating Clues!
— Matthew Isenburg
A 360 degree Daguerreotype Panorama of the City by the Golden Gate
— James Caddick and Susan Schwartzenberg
"Still Taking Pictures": An Interview with Mathew Brady in April 1891
— George Alfred Townsend
Baron Frederick V. Voigtlander: A Biographical Sketch
In Search of the "Elephant"
— Matthew Isenburg
The Vexations of E.M. Wilson, Itinerant Daguerreotypist
— Jim Foster
St. Anthony Falls on Silver: A Daguerreotype Collection
— Bonnie Wilson
Raffle Wars: A Chronology of Alphonse J. Liebert in California and France
— Peter E. Palmquist
The Daguerreotype in Italy
— Mike Jacob
Miraculous Museum Find Leads to Remarkable Daguerreian Discoveries
— William and Estelle Marder
Daguerreian Images: Poetic Representation
— Patrick Cahill
An Optical Treasure-Trove in Stereo
— Alan Johanson
Daguerreotypy Meets dBase III in Boston
— Melissa K. Rombout
Daguerreotypes [an account from 1846]
Vignette: It Pays to Advertise
Vignette: Snow Geese
A Monument to Daguerre
— Cliff and Michele Krainik
APPENDIX: Mini Daguerreian Biographies and Chronologies
Thomas Bass
Edmond Daggett
Abram Parmele Hart
Lucius E. Horton
Oliver H.P. Norcross
B.W. Read
J. Ruth William
H. Shattuck
Vignette: "A Little Keepsake"
Index of Daguerreian Names
1991 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
Feature Portfolio:
Nine Daguerreotypes of Miscellaneous Objects, Items and Things
Table of Contents
The Editor's Fuming Box
— Peter E. Palmquist
Front Yard Lunar Daguerreotypy
— Robert Shlaer
William Shew: A Portrait Photographer for More Than Half a Century
— O.V. Lange
Daguerreotype Care for the Collector
— M. Susan Barger
Vignette: I Said--SMILE!
— Cliff Krainik
A Souvenir of the Portage Railroad Bridge
— Wm. B. Becker
Glenalvon J. Goodridge: Black Daguerreian
— Linda A. Ries
Marcus Aurelius Root: Heliographer
— Clyde H. Dilley
Vignette: A Famous Rebus Mirrored
— Chris Steele
Photographers of the Late 1850s: Capsule Reviews for the Photographic Journals of the Period
— Ron Polito
Reflecting on Daguerre: Six Items from the Matthew Isenburg Collection
— Matthew Isenburg
Anson and Edwin H. Clark: Pioneering Daguerreotypists of Western Massachusetts
— Richard Bolt
PORTFOLIO--Nine Daguerreotypes of Miscellaneous Object, Items and Things
Pioneers of Photography--Jex J. Bardwell
— William and Estelle Marder
A Texas Frontier Daguerreotype
— Lawrence T. Jones
The Graves & Prudden Daguerreotype
— Graham W. Garrett
A Second Graves & Prudden Daguerreotype
— Graham W. Garrett
The Daguerreotype Plate as Seen by a Contemporary Daguerreian Artist
— Irving Pobboravsky
Copying Your Daguerreotypes: A Primer
— Dennis A. Waters
Poor Lamb! A Profile of Animal Trainer Isaac Van Amburgh
— Mike Jacob
Art Imitates Life: A Daguerreian Satire of the Benton-Kearney Feud, 1848
— Thomas Kailbourn
On the Life and Travels of C.E. Johnson: Daguerreian
— William L. Camp
The Alchemy of Research: How to Turn the Silver Plate Into Pure Gold
— Matthew Isenburg
Vignette: Two Black Portraits from the John Hightower Collection
— Thomas Kailbourn
The Swedish Nightingale and the Baltimore Daguerreians
— Ross J. Kelbaugh
Vignette: Scovill's Unique "Family Cases"
— Peter E. Palmquist
Becquerel--Development "in a New Light"
— Gerard Meegan
Art and the American Daguerreotype
— Floyd and Marion Rinhart
A Survey of Daguerreian Literature
— John Wood
Ball's Daguerreian Gallery of the West
— Clyde H. Dilley
Augustin Edouart: A Real Cut Up!
— Wendell Phillips Dodge
Robert H. Vance: The Maine and Boston Years
— Peter E. Palmquist
William Shew: Miniature Casemaker in Boston
— Frank R. Fraprie
Vignette: J.W. Stancliff
— John Wood
Carleton E. Watkins: A Biography--Chapter 4--From Babies to Landscapes 1856-1858
— Peter E. Palmquist
APPENDIX: Mini Daguerreian Biographies and Chronologies
Hugh S. Anderson
C. Duben
Thomas H. Johnson
Rudolph Jordon
William Marratt
Mrs. C.A. Nichols
Mary E. McKinstry
Joseph B. Pleasants
George Reuben Charles
Thomas Rogers
Leo J. Schumacher
William H. Simmons
Charles Stuart Wolff
Index of Daguerreian Names
1990 Daguerreian Annual Table of Contents
The Daguerreian Annual 1990
Feature Portfolios:
A Newly Discovered Daguerreotype Collection at Amherst College
Portfolio Of Eight Heretofore Unpublished Portraits
Table of Contents
The Editor's Fuming Box
— Peter E. Palmquist
On the Society's Name
— John Wood
A Newly Discovered Daguerreotype Collection at Amherst College
— Martha A. Sandweiss
The First Portable Camera
— Julius F. Sachse
Sacramento Squatter's Riot -- G.H. Johnson Captured the Scene
The Everlasting Portrait
— Cliff Krainik
On the Trail of Nahum S. Bennett
— Laurie A. Baty
Mr. Fixon
— Communication from Joan Murray
The Cutting Edge of Yesterday
— Kenneth E. Nelson
Dobyns & Company: River City Daguerreian Network
— Beth Ouimet
An Arresting Case of Monomania in San Francisco
— from contemporary newspaper accounts
Death on the Frontier: A Friend Remembered
— Albert S. Southworth
Funerary, Posthumous, Postmortem Daguerreotypes
— Daniel Fink
Practical Daguerreian Imagery
— Robert Shlaer
A Tip of the Hat: A Survey of Headgear Found in American Daguerreotypes
— John F. Graf
"Beyond These Unexplored Sierras": A Daguerreian Quest
— Thomas R. Kailbourn
The First Daguerreian Studios in Brussels
— Steven F. Joseph and Tristan Schwilden
The Hogg Connection
— Robert B. Fisher, M.D.
Brady of Broadway: A New Play for One Character
— Wm. B. Becker
Confessions of a Daguerreotype Collector Twice Over and Then Some
— David B. Belcher
PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT HERETOFORE UNPUBLISHED PORTRAITS
Potted History of a Daguerreian Lens
— Mike Jacob
Mr. Ryder Meets "The Professor"
— James F. Ryder
Daguerreian Jewelry: Popular In Its Day
— Larry West and Patricia Abbott
In Memoriam--Dr. Joseph Petzval
— Julius F. Sachse
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr.: An Early Expedition Photographer
— Bruce T. Erickson
Documenting the Relics of the Past: A Vignette
— Dolores A. Kilgo
Joaquim Bishop: Early American Camera Maker
— Pamela C. Powell
Carleton E. Watkins: A Biography--Chapter 3--Shadowcatching in El Dorado 1849-1856
— Peter E. Palmquist
APPENDIX: Mini Daguerreian Biographies and Chronologies
Perez Mann Batchelder
Henry William Bradley
Marsena Cannon
Lorenzo G. Chase
Baron Emanual Von Friedrichsthal
Sterling C. McIntyre
Mrs. Julia Ann Ruldolph
Mrs. Julia Shannon
Seth Louis Shaw
Jesse H. Whitehurst
Peter Wright
William L. Zuber
Index of Daguerreian Names
