Directions in the daguerreotype process
By: by Thomas Winn ; a direct transcription [by Albert Raborn Phillips] of an [sic] handwritten notebook of 1846
Publisher: Albert Raborn Phillips
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Exhibitions; Photography; Early works to 1850; Daguerreotype; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Notes: Transcript of a manuscript notebook in the Los Angeles County Museum.

Introduction signed and dated: Albert Raborn Phillips, Jr., Los Angeles, California, August 5, 1940.

Typescript.

The plates consist of a pen and ink sketch of the notebook cover; and 22 mounted photographs (gelatin silver prints), with typescript captions, of daguerreotype cameras and equipment, and reproductions of daguerreotype portraits and views by Mathew Brady, Charles R. Meade, Currier, J.J. Outley, Southworth & Hawes, and others.

"Daguerreotypes shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1939": plates [15]-[23].

Restricted: fragile; consult curatorial staff.

Bookplate of Albert Raborn Phillips, Jr.

The typescript text is a ribbon copy.

Original blue leatherette; title gilt-stamped on front cover, into which is set an original sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated man and woman; in case, 25 cm.