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Cromer's Amateur
French (active ca 1840s)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Organ Grinder on street with children passing

ca. 1848
daguerreotype
8.3 x 7.0 cm., 1/6 plate
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEGS: 23140 21875 22826
76:0168:0050

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p 75 f 113.//
Frizot, Michel. --A New History of Photography.-- Cologne: Könemann, 1998. p. 49.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 52.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February - June, 1977.//
"Vanishing Presence", US, MN, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, January 29 - April 16, 1989.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Cromer's Amateur"

NOTES: From wood box 771-461-211-A145. (Jan Buerger's reference.) Cataloged by J. Buerger. Updated 12/84, PB, 6/88, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
street scene, figures in
occupation, organ grinder

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