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Bemis, Samuel A.
American (1789-1881)

PUBLISHED TITLE: King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston

April 19, 1840
daguerreotype
16.4 x 21.6 cm., full plate
Gift of the Eastman Kodak Patent Museum
GEH NEG: 29374
80:0788:0014

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 54

Newhall, Beaumont. --The Daguerreotype in America.-- New York: Dover Publications, 1976. pl. 3.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Eventful Camera", US, NY, Rochester July 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: original frame verso-(attached ink caption) "Boston, April 19, 1840. S.A. Bemis's first daguerreotype experiment. Iodizing process 25 mts (apparatur new). Camera process 40 mts - wind N.W. sky clear, air dry and very cold for the season. Lens Meniscus. Daguerr's [sic] apparatus. Time 4.50 to 5.30 p.m. N.Y. Plate, ordinary"

NOTES: Catalogued 2/99, DZ.

SUBJECT: architecture

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