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History of Photography Images & Texts
Edward S. Dunshee
Article in Garden State Legacy about Edward S. Dunshee, a peripatetic portrait photographer whose last studios were in Trenton and Philadelphia. Visit Site
The Dunshees: Itinerant Photographers from Bristol, Vermont
Article in the New England Journal of Photographic History about the Dunshee brothers. See article. See also the visual supplement.
New Jersey Photographers Resources
An article by early Trenton photographer Henry C. Lovejoy. See also Indexes to Photographers.
19th & Early 20th Century Card Photograph Sizes
In Inches, Smaller Dimension First. View PDF
Photographers of the Civil War Era: Theodore Gubelman of Jersey City
Article published in New Jersey Studies. With Joseph G. Bilby. See article. See link to supplemental portfolio of images.
“Most Deeply Hardened”: Eric T. Kunsman Photographs the Eastern State Penitentiary”
Article published in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 88:2 (April 2021), 235-245. View PDF.
“Photographers of the Civil War Era: Frank H. Price of Newark and Elizabeth”
Article published in New Jersey Studies. With Joseph G. Bilby. See article. See link to supplemental portfolio of images.
“Photographers of the Civil War and Postwar Era: John P. Doremus”
Article published in New Jersey Studies. With Joseph G. Bilby. See article. See link to supplemental portfolio of images.
“Careers in Camerawork: Six Photographers of Camden, New Jersey, 1860–1910”
Article published in SoJourn 6:1 (Summer 2021). See article. Issue available from Amazon.
“The Shady Side of the Lens: Six Lawbreaking Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers”
New Jersey Studies (Winter 2023). See link to supplemental portfolio of images.
“Exceptional Cameraworkers: Early Black Photographers in New Jersey”
New Jersey Studies (Summer 2023). See link to pdf of supplemental portfolio of images.
“Ira G. Owen: U.S. Civil War Era Photographer of Newton, New Jersey”
“Samuel C. Chester: Southern New Jersey Photographer”
SoJourn, Volume 7 (Autumn 2023), 129-148. Link to pdf.
“Gustavus W. Pach: A Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographer”
The Daguerreian Annual, 2021 (Cecil, PA: The Daguerreian Society, 2021), 140–159. Pach was the founder of Pach Brothers, a major photography firm based in New York and New Jersey active from the 1860s to the 1960s, with many branch galleries. Available from the Daguerreian Society.