most of which are now long gone
John Slidell
The book chronicles the shift from Pictorialism—which sought to mimic painting through soft focus—to a structured
now the George Eastman Museum
Boston: NYGS/Little Brown in association with the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Daguerreotypes. Image, the Journal of the George Eastman House of Photography. Volume 5, Number 1, January 1956. Signed Copy most of which are nowEdited by Minor White. Includes Beaumont Newhall, "The Broadway Daguerreian Galleries," pages 27 37. [Discusses the leading galleries owned by Mathew Brady, Martin M. Lawrence, Rufus Anson, and Jeremiah Gurney, and mentions the operators who actually took the daguerreotypes for them such as James A. Brown, Polycarp von Schneidau, and Gabriel Harrison. Well illustrated with views of galleries, portraits of daguerreotypists, etc.] Complete issue, 45