Copies & Manipulations in Photography - Virtual Discover Series Session 2 Follow-up

Virtual Discover Series: Photography

Thank you for your interest in this program! We are pleased to share the Zoom recording and resources presented on May 13, 2020, in the second of four sessions in this series.

Session 2: Copies & Manipulations in 19th century Photography

Resources and Links

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Copies - Selected Examples

Horace Eaton (1810-1883)

Daguerreotype
Derivative Carte de visite
Finding Aid: Eaton-Shirley Family Papers

President Abraham Lincoln cartes de visite

Photographer Mathew B. Brady [Example 1] [Example 2]
Photographer Anthony Berger [link]
From the photo album of Arabella Chapman
Finding Aid: Arabella Chapman carte-de-visite albums (1878-[1890s])

Rosa, a slave girl from New Orleans. 1864. [link]

Rebecca, Augusta and Rosa, emancipated slaves from New Orleans. 1863. [link]

For further reading about these images, see Mary Niall Mitchell, "Rosebloom and Pure White," Or So It Seemed

Example Images of Performers [link]

Tom Thumb (1838-1883) and Lavinia Warren (1841-1919)

Example 1, 1864. [link]
Example 2, ca. 1880. [link]
Example 3, ca. 1880. [link]

Manipulations - Selected Examples

Chiseling in the plate:

Mary & Sarah Yates. 1852. [link]
Young boy and girl: Two young women. ca. 1850s. [link]

Spirit Photography:

[Man with three spirits]. ca. 1872. [link]
[Woman with three spirits]. ca. 1872. [link]
[Woman at table, with male spirit]. ca. 1865. [link]
For further reading on spiritualism and spirit photography, see Robert S. Cox, Body and soul a sympathetic history of American spiritualism