Main entry:

Palmquist, Peter E.

Title & Author:

Pioneer photographers from the Mississippi to the continental divide : a biographical dictionary, 1839-1865 / Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

Description:

xviii, 742 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 728-742).
Foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Guide to the Main Entries -- Biographical Dictionary Anonymous Workers -- Appendix 1: Photographic Partnership, Company, and Gallery Names to December 31, 1865: A Cross-Reference List -- Appendix 2: Panoramas, Stereopticons, Cosmoramas, and Other Public Performances: A Cross-Reference List -- Appendix 3: Women Workers -- Appendix 4: Workers Known Only as "Artist" -- Appendix 5: Geographical distribution of Workers Bibliography.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades) active in a vast area of North America before 1866 is based on extensive research and enhanced by over 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time." "The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West, A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada."
"This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography." "In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, as well as manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0804740577 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804740579 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Photographers West (U.S.) Biography Dictionaries.
Photography West (U.S.) History 19th century.
Photographers
Photography
Fotograf
West (U.S.) Biography Dictionaries.
West United States
Mittlere USA
Zentralkanada
Zentralmexiko
USA

Form/genre:

Biographical dictionaries.
Collective biographies.
dictionaries.
Biographies
Dictionaries
History
Dictionnaires.

Added entries:

Kailbourn, Thomas R.
Sandweiss, Martha A.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 247648
Call No.: TR139 .P35 2005
Status: Available