This is the second episode of One Day in the Life of John B. Roberts, picking up where our Lyons Republican story left off and following a young canal‑town photographer into the years of Lincoln, the Civil War and Frederick Douglass.
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Harar, ancient city in southern Ethiopia Rimbaud arrived in Harar for the first time in December 1880, after a journey from Aden to Zeila, followed by a twenty-day horseback caravan through the Somali Desert. At that time, the city was an ancient Muslim emirate under Egyptian control, with a population consisting of Harari, Oromo, Somalis, Arabs, Indians, and […]
INVITO A PARTECIPARE Biennale di Senigallia Edizione Intermedia – 2026 We invite historians, legal scholars, photographers, archivists, experts, and image scholars to submit contributions reflecting on the evidentiary and documentary role of photography in the digital age, across courts, archives, and everyday practices of the gaze. The study day will be held on Friday, June […]
PARTITA DOPPIA-II This second issue comes at a moment when the alignment of some major technology companies with political power has led many users to reconsider their choices. Claude — Anthropic’s artificial intelligence — carries the name of Claude Shannon. This is not a decorative coincidence: it is an intellectual lineage that this issue sets […]
THE LYONS REPUBLICAN Clyde, Lyons, Galen, Wayne, New York, The Empire State Clyde and Lyons, in Wayne County, New York, are paired communities whose identities pivot on a subtle distinction: Clyde remains an incorporated village within the Town of Galen, while Lyons, long the county seat and once an incorporated village, is now a hamlet […]
Lost Daguerreotype — Draft – Episode 1: An Inquiry into Method
Digital technologies and artificial intelligence have transformed methods for identifying portraits, art, and ancient documents. While they offer new opportunities, they also introduce complexities.
Lost Daguerreotype — Draft – Episode 13: Timeline of Lincoln Portraits and Various Perspectives
Lincoln’s first recorded portrait was taken after his election to Congress, at age 37. Gibson Harris, a law student who worked in Lincoln’s office from 1845 to 1847, was a friend and roommate of Nicholas H.
Lost Daguerreotype — Draft – Episode 12: Facial Features
The subject daguerreotype portrait is seen from a low angle, approximately 8°. Among all known Abraham Lincoln portraits, there are no comparable examples.
Lost Daguerreotype — Draft – Episode 11: Physical Evidence
Dimensions of the leather case: 94 x 80 x 14 mm. Dimensions of the brass frame: 82 x 70 mm.
Lost Daguerreotype — Draft – Episode 10: The Photographer and His Notable Patron
The village of Clyde, like many small American towns, had a single photographic studio that saw a succession of operators. Wayne Morrison’s research provides a detailed account of the photographers who worked in Clyde’s Daguerreian Gallery: