Untitled (Two Men Wearing Top Hats, Leaning on a White Picket Fence)
1853 · Daguerreotype
11 × 14 cm (4 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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William Shew
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- SmithsonianTier 1 · Institutional90%
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William Shew was an American daguerreotypist and photographer active in Boston and San Francisco. He was among the early photographers to work in California and is associated with a mobile studio that he called the "Daguerreotype Saloon". His work included portraiture, views of Gold Rush-era California, and later exhibition photographs shown in San Francisco in the late 1860s.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago
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- Art Institute Chicago2 published2 img
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