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Show fear Will Be Celebrated " J CenlenmaloX Photography ,.PuH:KJ Bool, TI,oo,3r.ip,y anj 110 Aniorican Sco h S .CrV C,,'ven an Au,,,orif,;v Account of tho First 50 Y' 15;,MjJ Contribution to the Social History of T ' Nr..i.c, i',,,., 0 United , ' vj i :i v 1 - n ' v:v I' 4 "V ; ' ; V v U' V A -...,; ? ' S V;v 1 :; i i i V ' ' "'i ' . t . ( i 'v. J. , . V -4 ; f V. f the direct ro3 u'- Tnfl'8 b00k "s to th. nP SUU f his CUriosity in the exni T f PhtKPhy " spec! ?vr0r,r f the Wesl- il o5 L ttm? that two ot "Pho n oPtcrs in it deal with The n"sMPh,mg the Frontier." "nra 0ra ?Ce the USe f a tion was wll or"-'"1 CXPedi" nrtist L the distinguished beein 1 Pnrty which in 1853 rafC,dSUrrVfyinS the northern dor S S t0 the Pacific un-ns un-ns of Washington Territory. hftHoJ,r-emo.nt set out uPn hn Pedl 10n in the same year he persuaded S. N. Carvalho of ?otypi ?rt;an artist and daeuer- vilhn f ' ? accomPany him. Carvalho Car-valho wrote a lengthy account of fromT' lnces and one sentence dinn 'Snif'cant of the han-a han-a caps under which these pioneer worked-To make a daguerreotype daguerreo-type view generally occupied Horn one to two hours; the principal prin-cipal part of that time was spent in packing and reloading the animals. ani-mals. " Although the Civil war h'alted government exploring expeditions expedi-tions and therefore expeditionary Photography, both were resumed after the war and from that time on the phnfographer was an important im-portant member of the personnel of any exploring party. Outstanding among these photographers pho-tographers were T. H. O'Sullivan, already well known for his work during the Civil war, and John K. Killers, who accompanied Maj. J. W. Powell on his historic trip down the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Ari-zona. But the best known of all Western photographers was a man who is still living in New York 95 years young and still keenly interested in photography! William H. Jackson is hia name. A native of New York, he went west after the Civil war. He opened a studio in the growing grow-ing frontier town of Omaha in 18C8, but becoming dissatisfied with the sedentary life of a village vil-lage photographer, fitted up a traveling dark room on a buck-board buck-board and toured the country around Omaha photographing Indians. In-dians. In 18G9 he took a trip along the newly completed Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad and this brought him into contact with Professor F. V. Hayden who was engaged in making one of the United States geological surveys of the West. From that time until 1879 S-imurl 1. 15. Morse, Inventor of the tclc-raph, and his first di;urrrrot pe cimrn, which ii now in the I'niled States National museum. (l'hotoirjih br A. liojirdus, New York, 1S71.) rr.:.;1.: w ;:.h t , u..t? :t. l)..:ufrro vL ! r. .t aosoriU his r--vc I :. -: I.:.-..! .V.:.:::st l. !.'-'.. I .:: nlrc.i.iy r.! i '. :.-.e r.cw rv.i:'. cl h.i.i lcc:i jj-rcij t:.ro.:-,;h the ? . ; r .nr. I sc.or.:.f.c press cf Fra::ce at;.i V." ,;'..r..l, nr. J the re a 5 re.w':.e.l .:::er:c3 as early as March. The ci.'.r cf the K.-.:Cf.eri : .-ker. a New York rr.ajr.r.e. doct.irei that the da-;uerrc: da-;uerrc: '.y; e's "ox ;u;s::e perfec-t.:n perfec-t.:n ah--, .st trarscrr..! th.e tv jr.ls cf s.icr tehtf." Tntf rs S. F. Ii. Morse. Or.e cf the occo-.:r.'.s In on Ar::er:-?.n r.e-.v.rnrer ('.he New Y;rk Otserver fir April - was wr.'.'.en ty a mn v.h.3 was to p'.ay i.n trr.p rtrtr.t part in the de ch. p:r.er.t cf phot ",;raphy in this co.;r.'.ry. Ho was S.irr.ucl Fir.-!oy Fir.-!oy Hrec?e ?! rsc. destir.eJ for f-j- i , ' s ' f , A , ... :,::!anrth-m :,::!anrth-m boon , H' ivm- u'Al'S. s 'jo.y we 11 --jb.ibtv j.;i:r...iJ llVftiU be l-ver-tcr of . j it k. -o the ri-v presor.t iu j-j-.earjwers " l.r.i rh.iP.y . vr.J in a sy hi tvVN. e. r.:st ir.i-mi ir.i-mi --j to the IMS ' , as! - in in .: j Thoto,;- ; ti 'v ?ei-, : ; gs by ti'.e ' Ti.. h as 7r.:.-;Ur... i us j.'ivs 3 :i'-s.:re cf 54 i;-i!y :ech- :.:::,-s cf ::.'.. '.Ves:." I: :j r.s.i as , : 1 the Wen C .-i:n abcut ed r. C: cf that OV --:..-Ji v:!- le i-a-.ei w.:h b -vs. a t-xk n . .. 1;. -o..i y ar.i ti ::- -- scholar- I ::--;,ia?hT. ej;V:.Tai: cere ce-re ; - --:--"-aa. ri a r.:s 81 -;cr-ce of e : , 1 n man. ;h :-;'--7 affects ni ;- xi.v;dja:3 P - a d.:T:cu:t ! - ts. Li ! ; -"5 '-: us the j it Cus- ! : - j'sh'.es Ir.e i the mr.er ih-s a:d3 .:? -J- Ey its ; able to :- to ex-J ex-J of space, id to reveal 1 1-5- Crune :y, ;s.-'t has re. : '-cated our kJ :V:0t le"t, it '4 :."'JSt Popular S t er de-c de-c OI : lr ,, : .;. o.-.de Da-J Da-J ;5'Sn' little re-'."v"e re-'."v"e benefits '.-fotess, the 1 ;;e arinounced which wa3 hr's,?ie in the I -.f; He was I.'"13, a suc-, suc-, on a I :topass Vs f the ob- 'i "e canvas 4 Painting iCrieso': it a meth--f lhat an-J; an-J; JPh Nlce. io . men de-' de-' ' -;P wh'ch was tJreepce even- o!,h uentlal 1; i who 1 '"e anrH0as to 51 C r;ne o 1 -rr. In re- it- ! : i I v I .... f N t , J ; : I J W. H. Jackson and his working work-ing outfit along the line of the Union Pacific railroad in 1869. Jackson was the official photographer photog-rapher of the Hayden surveys and in that role did some of his most important photography. He took thousands of pictures of Indians which are interesting historically because they ara among the relatively few that were made of the red man before be-fore he was forced to live on a reservation and his picturesque native life was greatly modified by contact with the whites. But even more important work was done by Jackson in another geld The Hayden survey of 1871 was 'in the region now known as Yellowstone National park. In fact the park probably owes its present status to the Hayden sur-ey sur-ey of this year," declares the author of "Photography and the ffrican Scene" and to Jackson rounding shrubbery and houses, I o-.J a corner of the Astor house. The I'irst Portrait. The author of "Photography nr.d th.e American Scene" also examines the evidence in an at-terr.pt at-terr.pt to answer the question "V.'i.o made the first photographic photograph-ic portrait?" That honor has also been claimed for Morse and for Professor John W. Draper who made the famous portrait of his sis'.cr. Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, which has often been reproduced re-produced as "the first photographic photograph-ic portrait." But according to Dr. Taft, it was not. That honor goes to Alexander S. Wolcott of New York, an instrument maker and manufacturer of dental supplies who became interested in daguer-reotypy daguer-reotypy when his partner, John Johnson, secured a copy of Da-gucrre's Da-gucrre's directions for making pictures by his new process. On October 7, 1833, Wolcott made a successful profile portrait of Johnson John-son and this Taft calls the "first." But more important than establishing estab-lishing these "historic firsts" is the complete story of the development devel-opment of the various photographic photo-graphic processes which Dr. Taft's book gives "not primarily primari-ly from a technical viewpoint, but from that of social history" as he explains. "I have endeavored endeav-ored to trace, however imperfectly imperfect-ly the effects of photography upon the social history of America Amer-ica and in turn the effect of social so-cial life upon the progress of photography." pho-tography." So in this book we read how Yankee ingenuity soon made the American daguerreotypes superior superi-or to those made in any other country and how this first phase of Photography reached its zenith in the workofMathew B Brady o whose studio came all of the ereat and near-great, as we 1 as Sguished foreign visitors, havp their portraits made. ble among these we 0SuIlivanj Gfdner and T. of j ,y who in the eariy' the 4, 1363, made the , piu Battlefield at Gettysburg viste, which the s0CiaI HolmeSv0?he sentimental green-currency, green-currency, the and the backs' of CIVich m its day was stereoscope, whirt i found i'le. 'hme. Then evy American ph0 came the day J J neW era tograph and finalItroduction of began plate and the the sensitive ary v 0. flexible film. . told in Dr. lately ilffits 500-odd Ta's book. nore vividIy than nages recreates mo the history. - ....... , mw7tvwi,7sw: - v 1 -' a : v ' i r L - 01 i j xx , : MATlltW U. BRADY ture fame as the inventor of the telegraph. Morse, who had already al-ready achieved fame as a portrait por-trait painter, had gone abroad in the summer of 1333 to secure se-cure patents in England and France for his "electro-magnetic telegraph" on which he had been working for several years. After securing a French patent, he remained re-mained in Paris for several months while negotiating with the Russian government for a contract con-tract for his invention and during dur-ing this time Daguerre made his historic announcement. Morse, who as a portrait painter paint-er had experimented, unsuccessfully, unsuccess-fully, with the same idea, was immediately im-mediately interested in the Frenchman's discovery, and sought an interview with the suggestion sug-gestion that if Daguerre would show him his daguerreotypes, Morse would demonstrate his telegraph. tel-egraph. Daguerre consented and from this interview grew the story sto-ry that the Frenchman generously gener-ously imparted the secret of tne new art to the American by whom it was carried across tne ocean and successfully introduced into the United States." After examining all of available availa-ble evidence in regard to " cla,rns made in behalf of Morse and others for the title of tne first person to make a successful daguerreotype in the U States." Dr Taft awards that distinction dis-tinction to D. W. Seager, an kng hshman living in New York in 133:1. On September 27 Seager made a picture which showed a part of St. Paul's church, the sur W. H. Jackson as he is today. u ic the distinction of taking the nrsi v . T ton National now the Grand i parkfnU oTthe New York Trib- SVhaHstw Mesa Verde Na-, tional park. |