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History of Photography Images & Texts
Edward S. Dunshee
Article in Garden State Legacy (2015) 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 published in 2016 in the New England Journal of Photographic History about the Dunshee brothers. See article. See also the visual supplement.
Charlotte Prosch
Charlotte Prosch, the first known female daguerreotypist in New Jersey, is profiled in this article published in Garden State Legacy, March 2016. Read Article
Also available, “New Jersey’s First Female Daguerreotypist: Charlotte Prosch and Her Family,” The Daguerrean Annual 2023 (Cecil, PA: Daguerreian Society, 2023), 82-98. Available with illustrations from the Daguerreian Society. Read Text of Article
New Jersey Photographers Resources
Early Trenton photographer interview with Henry C. Lovejoy. See also Indexes to Photographers.
19th & Early 20th Century Card Photograph Sizes
In Inches, smaller dimension first. View PDF
New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2019), 1-27. View PDF
Photographers of the Civil War Era: Theodore Gubelman of Jersey City
Article published in New Jersey Studies in 2021. 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 in 2021. 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 in 2022. 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. Visual Supplement
“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). Erratum: “Westcott” should be spelled “Wescott” in this article. 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. Read Article
“Philadelphia Area Photographers:
A Concise History, 1839–1940”
Drafted for an encyclopedia but not published. Includes bibliography. Read Article
“A Question of Priority: George G. Rockwood, Charles D. Fredricks, and Early Cartes de Visite in the United States,”
The Daguerreian Annual, 2024 (Cecil, PA: The Daguerreian Society, 2024), 25–61. Available from the Daguerreian Society.
Errata for print edition. Read revised text of article without illustrations in print edition.
“Twelve Million Black Voices: Richard Wright, Edwin Rosskam, and the Golden Age of Documentary Photography Books”
Chapter in The African American Experience: Personal and Social Activism in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Karen T. Ackermann (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2004), 101-131. Read Article
“Review of Italian Neorealist Photography: Its Legacy and Aftermath by Antonella Russo”
The Photo Collector 43:3 (March 2022), 15–16. Also in The Photo Review, April-May 2022, 21. Read Article
“Review of Russell Lee: A Photographer’s Life and Legacy by Mary Jane Appel”
The Photo Collector (Summer 2021), 19–20. Read Article
“Review of Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840–1940) from the Wm B. Becker Collection by François Brunet and Wm. B. Becker,”
The Photo Review 31:1 (February 2015), 37.. Read Article
“Review of Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam by Laura Katzman and Beverly W. Brannan,”
Views: The Newsletter of the Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists, 26:2 (July 2012), 14-15. Read Article
“Charles Henry Davis: Photographer of Plainfield, New York, and Hoboken”
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