The Train That Made Lincoln Visible In our first episodes we sketched the portrait of a young village photographer on the banks of the Erie Canal, John B. Roberts — the hero, as it were, of our serial — and the rather extraordinary story of how the single surviving copy of a small-town newspaper turned […]
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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 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:
Lost Daguerreotype — Draft – Episode 3: False Hopes and True Disappointments
Identification and analysis of old photographs is a patient art; one is often surprised to understand how different one’s neighbor’s vision can be. Six examples follow of collectors or researchers who believed they had found a daguerreotype representing Lincoln.
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 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: