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FALL LECTURES Graphs Sarah Weatherwax Was Pleased That They Been Used Only Infrequently by Scholars ALMANAC SEPTEMBER 2010 A MERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY NUMBER 80 IN THIS ISSUE THE REGISTERS OF PHILADELPHIA DAGUERREOTYPISTS IMONS OLLINS • R ECENT ACQUISITION S & C , 1845-1854 • F ALL LECTURES The opportunity to acquire business phia, more distant locations, • A NNUAL MEETING records for American daguerreotype op - such as Memphis, Tenn., erators is rare, so when curators at AAS Shrewsbury, Mass., and Tri - – W ORCESTER IN 1910 were contacted by our member David este, Austria, are also • B ARON LECTURE Doret about a pair recorded. Often, as is the • W IGGINS LECTURE of truly remark - case with the sitter from Tri - able customer reg - este (Stephen Chase), one • R ECOMMENDED READING isters being offered family member arrived for a • S UMMER SEMINARS by a Pennsylvania session and the next day re - dealer, we acted turned with other family – P ROGRAM IN THE HISTORY quickly. The regis - members – in this case Mrs. OF THE BOOK ters consist of a Chase, who, like her hus - – C ENTER FOR HISTORIC volume for the band, sat for a half plate AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE firm Simons & image. Occasionally, the en - Collins (Mont - tries can be frustratingly un - • CHAV IC C ONFERENCE gomery Simons specific, for example, mentioning only “A Lady,” • N EW MEMBERS and the Collins “An Irish Girl,” or “Child of the Hill family.” The brothers, Thomas information about cases and plate size is often • M ELLON DISTINGUISHED and David C.), and scratched hurriedly in the margin, along with notes SCHOLARS , 2010-2011 a second volume for its subsequent incarnation, about whether payment was owed. Returns and D.C. Collins & Co. (David C. primarily, with refusals are also noted, although these occur infre - • N EW FELLOWS ’ R ESIDENCE Thomas and/or their father, sporadically). Be - quently, indicating that the photographers, who • T EACHING AMERICAN HISTORY cause the Library Company of Philadelphia has started the business just six years after the inven - • N EWS excellent examples of the Collins brothers’ da - tion of the daguerreotype process, tried their best guerreotypes, we confirmed that they were not to get clear images that pleased their clients. • AAS H ERITAGE pursuing these records before we acquired them. Because the registers have been held privately Library Company curator of prints and photo - since being sold by descendants in 2004, they have FALL LECTURES graphs Sarah Weatherwax was pleased that they been used only infrequently by scholars. They are All, 7:30 p.m. ended up at AAS rather than in the hands of a cited in Rebecca Norris’s article on the Collins private collector. They will be available to schol - brothers in the 2006 Daguerreian Annual. Scholar SEPTEMBER ars for future work on the Collins firm, the his - Anne Verplanck has also looked at the ledgers for 16 Nathaniel Philbrick Lecture tory of the daguerreotype, and image-making in her work on Quakers in Philadelphia and consid - 28 Ilyon Woo Lecture the United States before the Civil War. ers them a vital resource for understanding the The registers document over 23,000 cus - consumer culture of the era. Since their arrival at OCTOBER tomers who visited the company’s daguerreian the Society this spring, several collectors and schol - 12 Marla R. Miller Lecture rooms in Philadelphia. For the decade covered ars have already used the registers, including one 21 BARON LECTURE : by the ledgers (1845-1854), each sitter signed the working on a biography of Gough and one, from register or was recorded by a clerk. One of the Singapore, working on the history of the da - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Collins brothers often added comments regard - guerreotype. NOVEMBER ing the weather (“Stormy day,” “Clear day,” etc.), The Collins registers were purchased with funds 9 Paul Finkelman Lecture payment, size of plate taken, and type of case pooled from both the manuscript and graphic arts used. The two volumes are peppered with signifi - acquisition budgets. The documentation of image- 16 WIGGINS LECTURE : cant names, such as Philadelphia lithographer making and consumption that they provide will be John B. Hench Albert Newsom, who sat on the very first day the invaluable to scholars working under the auspices business was open, and the nationally known of the Society’s Center for Historic American Vi - More information online: temperance lecturer John B. Gough, who sat on sual Culture, as well as researchers working in a www.americanantiquarian.org a cloudy January day in 1846. Sitters also gave number of other areas. their address; while most came from Philadel - – Lauren Hewes and Thomas Knoles Left: My Life on the Plains, George A. Custer, 1874. AAS collection, gift of Donald McKay Frost. Right: Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia. AAS postcard collection. BATTLES LOST & W ON : F ROM CUSTER TO THE COURTROOM IN AMERICA Each year, AAS presents two series of pub - September 28 at 7:30 p.m. In her recently pub - On October 12 at 7:30 p.m., AAS member lic programs in Antiquarian Hall, one in the lished book, The Great Divorce, Woo tells the Marla R. Miller will talk about her work on fall and one in the spring. These programs story of Eunice Chapman and her fight to gain Betsy Ross. Miller, who runs the public his - are designed to highlight the work of our custody of her children after her husband joined tory program in the history department at the members and fellows, showcase the kinds of the Shakers in 1814. She conducted research for University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has research done in the collections, and explore this book as a Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fel - written the first scholarly biography of Ross. the history and culture of the United States low in 2004, and claims, “It would be no exag - She teases the truth out of the many myths during the time period of the Society’s col - geration to say that I would not have had the about Ross and what emerges is a fully real - lections. material for a book – at least not a work of nar - ized portrait of an accomplished seamstress, AAS member and bestselling author rative non-fiction – without the AAS collec - wife, and mother. The book also explores the Nathaniel Philbrick will launch our fall se - tions.” As much of the legislative record of this world of Philadelphia crafts people at the ries on September 16 at 7:30 p.m. He will landmark case was lost in a fire, Woo relied on time of our nation’s founding. discuss his latest book, The Last Stand, in a the extensive coverage of the case in the Albany AAS member Paul Finkelman continues lecture entitled “Last Stand at the Little Gazette and Daily Advertiser, and the only re - our fall series with a presentation on Novem - Bighorn: A Centennial Catastrophe.” In this maining copies of this paper are at AAS. ber 9 at 7:30 p.m. on the libel trial of John talk, Philbrick will discuss how Custer’s epic “My debt to AAS lies beyond the archives,” Peter Zenger. Finkelman, who has just pub - defeat at the hands of Chief Sitting Bull dev - said Woo. “It was through my talks with other lished a new edition of A Brief Narrative of astated the nation just as it was celebrating fellows, curators, and staff that I began to de - the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger, will its 100th year. velop the idea of writing a work focused exclu - discuss how the original 1736 imprint be - The Battle of the Little Bighorn also oc - sively on Eunice Chapman. At AAS, I realized came one of the most significant publications curred in the last full year of the Society’s that I had more than enough material in Eu - in colonial America and the far-reaching im - collecting period. Among the many Custer nice’s story alone, and moreover, that Eunice de - plications this landmark case had on Ameri - related imprints in the AAS library is a copy served her own book. Not only that, but I can publishing, government, and law. of Custer’s own work My Life on the Plains, received great encouragement to explore cre - which was originally published to great ac - ative ways of telling this story, which has a nat - claim in 1874. The AAS copy is inscribed: ural three-act arc and a Hollywood ending. “For Genl. Banning with the compliments of Other fellows gave me inspiring reading sugges - G.A. Custer, April 7th 1876.” The book was tions and other tips and introduced me to a subsequently inscribed to General Banning’s wonderful agent, who eventually sold the book son. Henry Blackstone Banning (1836-1881) to Grove/Atlantic.” was an Ohio lawyer who served as a Union This program is co- Infantry officer during the Civil War. After sponsored by Fruitlands the war, Banning was elected a representative Museum in Harvard, to the United States Congress and served as Mass. Fruitlands will chairman of the Committee on Military Af - have a companion pro - fairs from 1873 to 1879. Custer, always gram – dramatic read - mindful of self-promotion, sent this volume ings of historical texts proclaiming his western exploits to this key used in this book – on congressman. September 24. Please see Our fall programs continue with “Discov - www.fruitlands.org for The New-York Weekly Journal, published by ering the Great Divorce” by Ilyon Woo on details. John Peter Zenger. AAS collection. 2 Photo © Harvard University/Stephanie Mitchell BARON LECTURE Antiquarian Hall under construction in 1910 REFLECTIONS ON A MIDWIFE’S TALE ANNUAL MEETING ADDRESS ORCESTER IN Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will deliver the sev - W 1910 enth annual Baron Lecture on October 21 at AAS Councilor Jock Herron will deliver the annual meeting keynote address, “Worcester in 7:30 p.m.
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