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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.
1845 daguerreotype of Walker's branded hand by photographers Southworth & Hawes.. Jonathan Walker (1799 – May 1, 1878), known as "The Man with the Branded Hand", was an American fishing ship captain and abolitionist who became a national hero in 1844 when he was tried and sentenced as a slave stealer following his attempt to help seven runaway slaves find freedom.
In 1819 after protracted negotiation, the government of Venezuela granted all the demands of the United States on 11 August negotiated by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. However, during the passage down the Orinoco River , Perry was stricken with yellow fever and died on board USS John Adams .
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.
Southworth—the author of an earlier book on the conservative legal movement, Lawyers of the Right—generally avoids caricaturing either side. She is especially interested in questions of ...
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.
Historic image of an early ether operation, 3 July 1847; daguerrotype by Southworth & Hawes. Warren was involved not once but twice in the earliest history of anesthesia. The first incident was a failed demonstration of nitrous-oxide by dentist Horace Wells on January 20, 1845. Although Warren did not believe that the anesthesia would work, he ...