San Francisco Photographs: San Francisco photographs Francisco was a favorite subject; of the several panoramas made of the city the most spectacular was taken on five plates by William Shew, who went to California from Boston in 1850. He sent around Cape Horn a studio-on-wheels that he called his Daguerreotype Saloon; he photographed it in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco photographs Francisco just after the great fire of 1851. Among the earliest news photographs in existence are a series of daguerreotypes of burning mills in Oswego, New York by George N.
What sort of photographs were these prints, which caused so much commotion? Just plain, straightforward itographs. But such photographs! Different from the photographs usually seen at the exhibitions? Yes. How different? There's the rub. If you could see them for yourself, you would at once appreciate their difference. |
