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Note:  Despite his celebrity, Peel's brief life (1841-1869) was so tumultuous opportunities to document it with visual images were scattershot.

Note: Young woman

Note: Edward Payson Weston.  Weston was a champion walker whose first long-distance trek followed a lost bet.  He wagered that Douglas would win the 1860 election and promised to walk (from Boston) to Lincoln's January inaugration in Washington if he…

C.D. Fredricks was a pioneering entrepreneur in New York photography. The facade of his studio on Broadway was illuminated at night with colored lanterns, an early example of illuminated signage in New York's streets.

The Taber Brothers (Isaiah West Taber & Freeman Augustus Taber) were located at the Syracuse, NY address (No. 6 Franklin Building, East Genesee St.) for a relatively short period of three years, between 1862-1864. See Palmquist & Kailbourne, Pioneer…

Ambrotype (collodiom positive)

Cabinet card Albumen paper

Ambrotype

Note: Man Tinted Tintype