Alexander B Weeks : a daguerreotypist's journal : Brooklyn, Recife, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Toledo, Detroit / transcribed by Catherine A. Murray.

Main entry:

Weeks, Alexander B., author.

Title & Author:

Alexander B Weeks : a daguerreotypist's journal : Brooklyn, Recife, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Toledo, Detroit / transcribed by Catherine A. Murray.

Publication:

Mt. Pleasant, Mich. : Catherine A. Murray, [2014]
©2014

Description:

142 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142).
Brooklyn -- Voyage to Pernambuco -- Pernambuco -- Voyage to Montevideo -- Montevideo -- Buenos Aires -- Brooklyn -- Toledo -- Detroit -- Newspaper advertisements -- Weeks and Combs family trees -- Known daguerreotypes.

Summary:

Alexander B Weeks' journal provides a first hand account of the life of a Daguerreotype photographer in the 1850's. Weeks was employed by Jeremiah Gurney in his famous gallery on Broadway in New York City. Entries made during a voyage to Brazil and Uruguay as a partner to the itinerant Daguerreotypist, Charles Deforest Fredericks (or Fredricks) offer insights into the business methods of these adventurers. Read about the creation of the first Daguerreotype images taken in Recife by Fredricks & Weeks. Images of views and portraits by Fredricks & Weeks now held in American, British, Canadian and Uruguayan collections are included. The descriptions of Recife and Montevideo from the point of view of a New York Quaker also make for interesting reading. Weeks' entries for his years in Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, describe some of the technical difficulties presented by impure chemicals and the low temperatures of Midwest winters. The journals also offer grim evidence for the health effects of the hazardous materials employed by Daguerreotype operators.

ISBN:

9781494840594
1494840596

Subject:

Weeks, Alexander B. Diaries.
Weeks, Alexander B. Travel South America.
Daguerreotypists United States Diaries.
Daguerréotypistes États-Unis Journaux intimes.
Daguerreotypists.
Travel.
South America.
United States.

Form/genre:

Diaries.

Added entries:

Murray, Cathy (Catherine A.), transcriber.

Daguerreotypist's journal

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285500
Call No.: BIB 225132
Status: Available

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