Daguerreotype of the Greenbrier Resort, 1845.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Daguerreotype of the Greenbrier Resort, 1845.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50442458

Probably one of the first daguerreotypes by Ball, who learned his trade in White Sulphur Springs in 1845.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, quarterplate ; 8 x 10 cm. cased.

University of Virginia. Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7625620

University of Virginia. Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs8g8v (corporateBody)

Ball, James Presley, 1825-1904

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6155djw (person)

African-American photographer; from 1846 operated studios in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Richmond. From the description of Daguerreotype of the Greenbrier Resort, 1845. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50442458 J.P. Ball began work in photography in 1845 as a Southern itinerant photographer, settling in Cincinnati as a daguerreotypist in 1847, later establishing a photography parlor in N.Y. He was one of few Freemen of color documenting the pre-Civil War era. Bal...