19th Century Exchange
Archived: 27 Mar 1997 to 26 Apr 1997
04/26/97
Anyone know the current "market rate" for stereoviews
by C. W. Carter of Salt Lake City (probably ca. 1870s/80s)?
I have some of general views, including the half-finished
Temple, B. Young's Grave, B. Young's Home, etc. And one
I like, of "Mormon Celebrities" which appears to be of a
Mormon man, his three wives and children.
Any guestimates appreciated.
---Andrew Finch, acfinch@mtn-webtech.com
04/26/97
Lamar, Colo., early photographer - I am attempting to identify the photographer who made a number of photographs I found recently. The photos were published as postcards by The Commercial Studio of Lamar, Colo., circa 1908. One photo has the initials O.N. or possibly O'N. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
---David Ansley, dansley@aol.com
04/23/97
For my meteorology class I have an assignment
to find the town in Vermont that displays
photos taken by a photographer with a last
name of Benton. He photographed hundreds
of snowflakes in the late 1800's into the
1900's. What was his first name? And which
town in Vermont is the museum located?
---Steve Reynolds, shadowhawk1@juno.com
04/23/97
Curious to know about micro dot photography, I know it's probably a 20th Century technique but if you could give me a starting point I would appreciate it.
Thanks in Advance,
Nasor Ali
---Nasor Ali, dan.smith@dial.pipex.com
04/23/97
Contact for information on Lala Deen Dayal, 19th century pioneer Indian photographer. Offer exquisite 100 year old images of India for video film/TV short. Inserted by the great grand daughter of Deen Dayal.
---hemlata Jain, cardinal@bom2.vsnl.net.in
04/20/97
I am interested in knowing of any books which contain photographic images of the following individuals:
...........................>ANNA E.DICKINSON............
................>MARGARET FULLER or Margaret Fuller OSSOLI...........
..........>SUSANNAH EVANS..............
>FANNY KEMBLE..............
.......Any references to a Museum or Library collection, or to an individual that I might contact would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks to anyone with the consideration to reply.
---Ann Haney, thaney@erols.com
04/19/97
I am posting this for as friend:
"I am looking for any pictures of Baltimore, Maryland from the 19th century that would depict number 44 Monument Place near Calvert Street. The Civil War Period is primarily my interest. Most importantly, I am looking for a photograph of THOMAS WILLIAM HALL Jr., who was Editor of the Baltimore Newspaper "THE SOUTH" published in the year 1861 (The same year he was arrested) If anyone can relate to me any persons to contact or collections to look into it would greatly be appreciated in relation to my research. In addition, any Baltimore photograph of 74 Baltimore Street near Gay Street during the time of the Civil War would be of particular interest to me as well. Thank you, I.Joiner"
---Ann Haney, thaney@erols.com
04/17/97
I recently purchased a beatiful hand-colored 16x20 photograph with the "signature", Copywrite 1896 by J. Arthur. I would like to know any information about this photographer. Thank you.
---John Spears, jmspears@usit.net
04/16/97
I'm looking for some information about the FIRST PHOTOJOURNALISM magazine ever to be published. It was called THE ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN and no longer exists. I need some history of the magazine and things of that sort. If ANYONE can help, please email me! And discrad this after 4/18/97. Thankyou.
---Alicia, ARF5860@rit.edu
04/15/97
Hi, I have a set of photographs taken in 1905 in Berlin by J. Baruch. I would like to find some biographical info on Baruch and if his photographs are very collectable.
I also have a 1940's movie projection camera that I would like more info on. It was made in Chicago by the Holmes Co. Thanks, L. Kallen
---L. Kallen, lkallen@spots.ab.ca
04/15/97
Hi, I have a set of photographs taken in 1905 in Berlin by J. Baruch. I would like to find some biographical info on Baruch and if his photographs are very collectable.
I also have a 1940's movie projection camera that I would like more info on. It was made in Chicago by the Holmes Co. Thanks, L. Kallen
---L. Kallen, lkallen@spots.ab.ca
04/13/97
I am searching for photo's & biographical information on the following names all served as U. S. Marshal, Alabama between 1818 and 1900. Also intertest in any related photographs. Hanes, John Files, David Livingston, Taliaferro (Toliver) Armstrong, Francis W. (Frank) Moore, Benjamin F. Crawford, Robert L. Armistead, William B. Lyon, James G. Bingham, Charles Godbold, Cade M. Hardy, John Healy, Robert W, Hinds, Jerome J. Turner, George Osborn, Matthias C. Strobach, Paul Golson, W.C.M. Speed, Joseph H. Allen, William Wirt Walker, Benjamin W. Morrisette, Edward R. Simmons, Frank Deans, Gilbert B. Gewin, Christopher C. and VanHeuvel, John W. Thanks for your interest.
---Franck Shelby, FShelby@worldnet.net
04/11/97
I have some lenses from the 19th century that I got from my dad before he died some time ago. They were my great-grandfather's. I would like to learn a bit more about them
Three of the lenses are brass. They are inscribed in script with "Darlot Paris #5 B.G.& Co.", "Darlot Opticiery, Paris 6058", and the third has just "6" E.F. made in Paris."
They all are brass... the first has an off-set disk with four aperatures that rotates into place. The second has three levers that slide in different aperatures. The last has
a rotating handle that turns a gear against a strip on the lens body. The three other lenses include one black body that says "Dimax f=25cm Ernst Leitz Wetzlar and has a knob
that runs in a diagonal slot to move the lens back and forward. Another is a large lens mounted on a wood square with some kind of pneumatic cylindars on the sides of the lens.
It has two triggers; one seems to cock the shutter, the second releases it. It says "Wollensak Optical, Co Rochester, N.Y." It has lots of f/stops and a shutter control. But,
it must be early 20th century because it has "Pat. Feb.6.1900." The final lens says "Ansco Automatic" It has f/stops and shutter speeds. It is brass and has a shutter release
kind of hollow nipple that might be for a remote shutter release. It says "Wollensak Optical Co. Rochester, N.Y. U.S.A." Any suggestions on where I can find out more about these
lenses would be appreciated. Thanks!
---Ray Schroeder, schroeder.ray@uis.edu
04/10/97
I am looking for 19th c. photos of any countries in Asia, especially China, Japan, Hongkong, Philippine, Singapore, etc. Please contact me if you do have. Thank you
e-mail: liu.portland@worldnet.att.net
---David Liu, liu.portland@worldnet.att.net
04/10/97
I am looking for images OF, (not BY), the following
19th c. photographers:
AMERICAN:
George B. Barnard
William H. Bell
Samuel Bemis
Alexander Gardner
GERMAN:
Hermann Carl Eduard Biewend
FRENCH:
Louis Blanquart-Evard
Adolphe Braun
Claude-Joseph Charney
Hippolyte-Auguste Collard
Louis-Emile Durandelle
Andre Giroux
Jacques Moulin
Pierre-Louis Pierson
BRITISH:
Hugh Diamond
Robert Howlett
Horatio King
AUSTRIAN:
Heinrich Kuehn
I'd appreciate any leads or if you know whether or
not and "photo" exists at all of this person.
Thanks!
---rhonda krafchin, rkrafchin@getty.edu
04/09/97
I am currently working on a term paper about 19th century immigration. I would greatly appreciate it that if anyone at all has any information on the immigration of the 19th century ( related of not related to the 20th century--it doesn't matter) to please e-mail me as soon as possibly being that my paper is due in early May.
---Shannon Tonks, ptonks@mindspring.com
04/08/97
I am searching for visual learing aids on women teacers used in this era. These can be pictures, comic, cartoons, drawings, graphs, etc.
I appreciate anything you can do to help
---richele, lawman@communityonline.net
04/08/97
I am a collector of pre 1900 wood & brass CAMERAS.
If anyone has information on William Walker, maker
of the Walker Pocket Camera and Walker American Challenege ( 1882-4 )
I would appreciate hearing from you. I have read much
of the literature and have an outline - but looking for
the details... Thanks
Antique Camera Web Site at http://home.aol.com/dcolucci
---Dan Colucci, DColucci@aol.com
04/08/97
I am looking for any information on a CDV that I discovered in
one of my old family photo albums. The image is a bust view of what
looks like a confederate soldier. On the reverse is the photographers
name, D.F. Brandon, Photographer, Camp Douglas, Ill. Any information on
the photographer would be helpful.
---Joe Ager, ager@rconnect.com
04/08/97
Is there a resource for dating Cartes de Visite by the advertisement on back. I have access to several Victorian albums ... several pictures by Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco, there's one with an elevator add, then a single medal (apparently 1876-77) ... then three medals with the top one dated 1873 Vienna. I'm assuming the three medals are after 1877.
Another one of particular interest to me is H. Luther, South Park. Photographer was at address 1874-1885 baking light orange, gold line, etc.
These are family pictures, many of children, and a better date could help with identifying.
---Janet Anderson, JANR@Prodigy.com
04/04/97
I'm looking for information re: late 19th century photos of families with quilts used as backdrops. Have found several examples from Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama probably taken by nameless itinerant photographers.
---m. waldvogel, quiltalive@aol.com
04/03/97
Does anyone have any information on the following photographers. We have photographs of family members made by them.
Peterson Bros. 111 Market Street, Wilmington, NC c.1890;
Sipes Studio, Pelzer SC 1914;
Art Gallery, Pelzer, SC 1900;
W.T.Robertson, Asheville, NC c.1890
Photographer and Publisher of Steroscopic
Views of Western North Carolina Scenery;
J.R. Childers Photographer - Possibly Jackson County NC c.1880;
Lee (or Les?) Poe - Photographer,
Ashley, Ashe Co. NC c.1860;
Mrs. H.E.P. Leland - Photographer - Western NC 1890-1910? :
M.L. Sanders - Brownwood Texas,
Landscape and Portrait / Artistic Photography Prob. Late 1800's;
Any information, especially on the dates these photographers worked, would be usefull.
---Carroll Hughes, cghughes@erols.com
04/02/97
I am searching for information on the photography studio of Furlong & Crispell that was located in Las Vegas, New Mexico circa 1880-90. I am mostly interested in who the Crispell partner was since this might be a direct ancestor to us.
---Joe Wheeler, jwheeler@worldaccessnet.com
04/02/97
I'm looking for any detailed process information for Hippolyte Bayard's direct positive potassium prints. Specifically information such as what the strength of the potassium iodide bleach is?
thanks
-Nathaniel
---Nathaniel Udell, nudell@speakeasy.org
04/02/97
I am looking for photographs (or engravings) of
19th century industrial centers, complete with smoke-
stacks, furnaces, anything with lots of black smoke.
Thanks for any information...
---David Wilbanks, dwilbank@enterprz.crawford.com
04/01/97
I came by a nice b/w image at a flea market a couple months ago.
It is ~3x3 and is paper mounted on board. It does have "Moonlight at Santa Catalina" Copyrighted by J.R. Lemon on the lower part of the image, not visible when in the frame.
I thought that it seemed very early, but as I write this I realize that the fact that it has "Copyrighted" probably dates it a little later than I thought. Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks
---Joe Boeckholt, joeb@lagoon.com
04/01/97
I am trying to do wet plate photography and am in need of camera information, I am in the proccess of building a wet plate camera and need model #s and company names and if possible the pattent date of actual cameras and backs, so I can find the patent plans. I am also looking for a good scource for wet plate lenses. Any information would be helpful.
Thanks
Jonathan
---J R Richardson, jrrichardson@andover.edu
03/27/97
i am trying to locate a source to acquire the magazines twice a year and american amatuer photographer?
Do you have any thoughts on how I can find a source that i can access..
maxx
---harve sherman, maxx@idirect.com
03/27/97
i am trying to locate a source to acquire the magazines twice a year and american amatuer photographer?
Do you have any thoughts on how I can find a source that i can access..
maxx
---harve sherman, maxx@idirect.com
03/26/97
We are looking for information on several
photographers, c.1890-1920, that over that time span
photographed our ancestors. Any information would
be appreciated.
Jno. W. Morrow, Grove Hill (Clarke County), Alabama
W. Wilson, Dalton (Whitfield County), Georgia
Charles Neil, 514 Queen St. W, Toronto, Canada
Brown's Art Gallery, Mobile, Alabama
Columbia Medallion Portrait Company, Chicago, Illinois
---Cathy Wright, cwright317@aol.com
03/26/97
LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GIBSON, SCOTISH, ACTIVE 1860, ,INTERESTED IN LIFE AND DEATH DATES
---THOMAS MOORE, INFO@MARINER.ORG
03/26/97
I have a photo taken by a:George R. Lawrence Co.
from Chicago,May 5,1906.Subject matter:Bird's eye
view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship
600 feet above Folsom between fifth and sixth streets.
Is this an unusual way to photograph a disaster
scene,the lens used is wide angle,and has very good detail
Also is this company still in the business,and is the work they
do archival in nature.Could this photo have been
part of a set for the city's history?Any reliable
information would be appreciated thanks,Andy
---A.W.Cichowski, marandy@knet.kootenay.net
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