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Barnard, George N.
American (1819-1902)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Burning Mills at Oswego, New York

July 5, 1853
daguerreotype with applied color
5.7 x 6.9 cm., 1/6 plate
Museum Purchase; ex-collection James Cady
GEH NEG: 5814
79:3107:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 8402

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 48.//
Davis, Keith F. --George N. Barnard, Photographer of Sherman's Campaign.-- Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1990. fig. 7.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 98.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987.//
"George N. Barnard: Photographer of Sherman's Campaign", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North & South Galleries, May 17 - June 19, 1991.//
"Eventful Camera", US, NY, Rochester July 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//
"Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography", US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(embossed stamp) "Barnard Oswego"

NOTES: Cataloged 11/83, DZ, updated 4/91. "The second view was taken a short time later from a rooftop position two blocks south of his studio near the head of West Oneida Street, looking northeast. This latter view conveys the extent of the destruction along the riverbank from the center of East Oswego north to the harbor. The small plates in the Eastman House collection are reduced copy daguerreotypes made for public sale from Barnard's larger originals. Since they are 'mirror images' of the originals, laterally reversed daguerreotypes, these smaller plates read correctly. The daguerreotype of the Ames and Doolittle mills is delicately hand-colored, with crimson pigment added to the flaming buildings." [Keith Davis, --George N. Barnard,-- 1990, p. 28-29]

SUBJECT: event, fire / Ames Mill Fire

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