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1. Beaumont Newhall, The Daguerreotype in America (New York: Duell, Sloan &
Pearce, 1961; reprint Dover Publications, 1976), plate 2.
2. Robert Taft, Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1839-1889 (New
York: Macmillan, 1938; reprint New York: Dover Publications, 1964), 22-45.
3. William F. Stapp, Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography
(Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983).
4. Leo Stashin, "Portraits of Notable Nineteenth-century Americans in Daguerreotype,"
Antiques 103 (April 1973): 784-800; see also William Welling, "An Attribution List
Grows Suddenly Larger," Photographia (May, 1982): 8-10. The fact that at least one other
collector "discovered" Draper and Morse in his collection, did not encourage our
confidence.
5. Howard R. McManus, "The Most Famous Daguerreian Portrait: Exploring the History of the
Dorothy Catherine Draper Daguerreotype," The Daguerreian Annual 1995, 149-171.
6. Howard R. McManus, "It Was I Who Took The First," The Daguerreian Annual 1996,
70-100.
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