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Bemis, Samuel
American (1789-1881)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: King's Chapel Burial ground, Tremont Street, Boston

ca. 1840-41
daguerreotype
16.5 x 21.6 cm., full plate
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 29529
80:0788:0013

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rudisill, Richard. --Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971. p. 283.//
Newhall, Beaumont. --The Daguerreotype in America.-- New York: Dover Publications, 1976. pl. 3.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester August 1979 - March 1984.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester March 1985 - April 1987.//
"A Lasting Impression: The Daguerreotype in America", US, GA, Atlanta November 30, 1989 - February 23, 1990.//

FRAME: framed

NOTES: Catalogued 12/84, JB, updated 8/89, SB.

SUBJECTS:
cityscape, winter
architecture, church / King's Chapel

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