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A Newly Discovered Daguerreotype Collection at Amherst College Portfolio Of Eight Heretofore Unpublished Portraits |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PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT HERETOFORE UNPUBLISHED PORTRAITS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