On January 29, 2018 I started sharing my research of new names and new information about early photographers here. April 2, 2023 marks the second complete alphabetical review. While I am continuing this research there are also several projects that I want to devote more time to. The blog with be taking a break and resume in the fall.
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Mr. Wright
1857 Rooms opposite the Store of Barker, Parrish & Co., Aberdeen, Mississippi.
Mr. Wright was recorded I one advertisement that was recorded from June 14 to July 23, 1857 in the Sunny South (Aberdeen, Mississippi). Something New! Sky-Light Ambrotypes! Wright’s Picture Gallery Is at last complete, and vies with any place of the kind in the Southern country. The subscriber is now prepared to take Ambrotypes by the late London Process. By this process, it will be seen that pictures process a strength not inferior to the most celebrated Oil Paintings, yet preserving all the beauty of light and shade which can be found in the finest Mezzzolent Engravings. By a new chemical preparation, the likeness is so protected as to remain unchanged by atmospheric influence, and cannot be tarnished or injured by washing or rubbing.—There is a degree of perfection about these pictures that render them a great more valuable than the ordinary Ambrotype; the likeness is brought out in more full, round, and life-like appearance than by the old process. Eight years constant practice, in the Photographic Art, enables Mr. Wright to state, with confidence, that his pictures cannot be surpassed in any part of the world. The most artistic skill exercised as to position; also, in equalizing the light and shade on the face, so as to give every life-like expression, and entirely obviate that flat, cadaverous expression, so common to Daguerreotypes.
Lovers of nature and of Natures art, and the public generally, are invited to call and examine specimens.
Gallery, opposite the Store of Barker, Parrish & Co.
Al work warranted. May 14, 1857.
Mr. Wright is not recorded in other photographic directories.
Gilbert Wood
C. 1848-1850 Address Unknown, Alstead, New Hampshire.
Gilbert Wood appeared in the same announcement in two different newspapers. The first appeared on November 21. 1850 in the Congregational Journal (Concord, New Hampshire). At Ossipee, the 6th inst., at his brother-in-law’s. Rev. Horace Wood, Mr. Gilbert Wood, of Alstead, aged 28 years.
For several years he had been engaged in teaching writing and taking Daguerreotype likenesses, which gave him an opportunity of securing a large number of intimate friends, to whom he was firmly attached and the to him. He had been a professor of religion fifteen years. His sickness was very painful and protracted, which he bore with patience and resignation. His trust was in God, and his end was peace. One sister and five brothers survive to mourn his loss, beside a large circle of more distant connections.
Gentle thy passing spirit fled,
Sustained by grace divine,
Oh may such grace on us be shed,
And make our end like thine.
The second appeared on November 22, 1850 in the New Hampshire Statesman (Concord, New Hampshire). At Ossipee, the 6th inst., at his brother-in-law’s. Rev. Horace Wood, Mr. Gilbert Wood, of Alstead, aged 28 years.
For several years he had been engaged in teaching writing and taking Daguerreotype likenesses, which gave him an opportunity of securing a large number of intimate friends, to whom he was firmly attached and the to him. He had been a professor of religion fifteen years. His sickness was very painful and protracted, which he bore with patience and resignation. His trust was in God, and his end was peace. One sister and five brothers survive to mourn his loss, beside a large circle of more distant connections.
Gentle thy passing spirit fled,
Sustained by grace divine,
Oh may such grace on us be shed,
And make our end like thine.
Gilbert Wood is not recorded in other photographic directories.
Pioneer American Photographers, 1839 - 1860 