A curious & ingenious art : reflections on daguerreotypes at Harvard / Melissa Banta with contributions by M. Susan Barger, Deborah Martin Kao & Robin McElheny ; foreword by Sidney Verba.

"The collection includes the work of America's pioneering daguerreotypists, including Mathew Brady, Southworth and Hawes, and John Adams Whipple. Most notably, the Harvard collection preserved for posterity such faces of the era as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beeche...

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Main Author: Banta, Melissa, 1953-
Corporate Author: Harvard University. Library.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : Published for Harvard University Library by the University of Iowa Press, 2000.
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Call Number: TR365 .B35 2000
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