In this episode of the Fine Art Photography podcast: the story of Boston-based Southworth & Hawes, the first American masters of daguerreotype portraiture. We will talk about the partnership between Albert Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes in the earliest days of photography that created some of the most beautiful portraits ever. We'll also take a dive into the daguerreotype process.

Sources for this episode:

Center for Artifact Studies, Photograph Identification Guide, “Tintypes, Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes,” David Rudd Cycleback
http://www.cycleback.com/photoguide/dags.html

Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Southworth & Hawes”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Southworth-and-Hawes

George Eastman House photos of Southworth and Hawes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157606223836462/

George Eastman House, “Guide to the Southworth & Hawes Records” (PDF)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qt2Cal2WvraU9ziuAjI0A1hc-6AUUR9b/view

Historic Camera, “Francois Gouraud”
http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=1510

International Center of Photography, “Southworth & Hawes: Permanence” Accessed via Web Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090914011610/http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/southworth_hawes/pages/permanence.html

International Center of Photography, “Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes,” Accessed via Web Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090914013122/http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/southworth_hawes/pages/young_america.html

National Gallery of Art, Southworth and Hawes, “The Letter, ca. 1850”
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.110216.html

Skinner, “How to Identify a Daguerreotype: 5 Considerations When Looking at Early Photography”
https://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/how-to-identify-a-daguerreotype-early-photography/

Wikipedia, “Daguerreotype”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype

Wikipedia, “François Fauvel Gouraud”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Fauvel_Gouraud

Wikipedia, “Photography in the United States”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_in_the_United_States

Wikipedia, “Samuel Morse”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

Wikipedia, “Scollay Square”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scollay_Square

Wikipedia, “Tremont Row”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_Row

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