Langenheim, W. & F.
American (active 1843-1874)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia

ca. 1849
salted paper (calotype) print
9.1 cm. (diameter)
Gift of Harold White
GEH NEG: 4020
81:2914:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3284

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 99.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "W & F Langenheim Philadelphia" note accompanying print-"The Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia. Calotype signed by W. and F. Langenheim, Philadelphia and sent to H. Fox Talbot as sample of their work. Gift of Harold White, who acquired it from Miss M.T. Talbot, Lacock Abbey Eng. Similar, but not identical, to calotype dated Aug. 16, 1849, repr. by Taft --Phot. and American Scene,-- p. 108, from Talbot Coll."

NOTES: Catalogued 12/97, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, urban
cityscape, figures in