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Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863. Its partners, Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901), have been hailed as the first great American masters of photography, whose work elevated photographic portraits to the level of fine art.
Southworth was a student of Samuel F.B. Morse, who, in addition to his other more famous pursuits, was an avid daguerreotypist.The partnership's studio, located on the top floor of a Boston building, had enormous skylights to allow in copious amounts of light necessary for relatively "short" exposures of portraits of their subjects.
Josiah J. Hawes, c. 1850-1855 Advertisement for J.J. Hawes, Boston, 1868. Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts.He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s–1860s.
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Daguerrotype by Southworth & Hawes of a historic ether operation at Mass. General Hospital, July 3, 1847. The MGH Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine traces its roots back to the October 16, 1846 public demonstration of medical ether.
It was located near the intersection of Court, Tremont, and Cambridge streets, in today's Government Center area. [1] It existed until the 1920s, when it became known as Scollay Square . [ 2 ] In 1859 the Barre Gazette newspaper described Tremont Row as "the great Dry Goods Street of Boston."
Emerson School for Girls, Boston, ca.1850; photo by Southworth & Hawes (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Barrell Emerson . George Barrell Emerson (September 12, 1797 – March 14, 1881) was an American educator and pioneer of women's education.
1840 Catalogue of books added to the Boston Athenaeum, since the publication of the catalogue in January, 1827. 179 pp. 8° 1849 Shelf Lists, 1849. 1863–1868 List of books added to the library of the Boston Athenaeum. 6 v. 8° 1868–1871 List of books added to the library of the Boston Athenaeum. 17 nos. 8° 1877–1896 List of additions ...