George W. Holmes [photograph], [ca. 1850].

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George W. Holmes [photograph], [ca. 1850].

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Sixth-plate, hand-colored daguerreotype in leather case of George W. Holmes, probably taken by one of the daguerreotype studios owned by John Plumbe in Boston, Mass., ca. 1850.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible image 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 cm. (sixth-plate), in case 9 1/4 x 8 1/4 cm.

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Plumbe, John, 1809-1857

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At the time this diary was written John Plumbe was a civil engineer in Sinipee, Wis. and Dubuque, Iowa waiting for a commission from the United States Congress to survey the route for a transcontinental railroad. In 1840 he took up photography as a career after seeing the work of a daguerreotypist in Washington, D.C. The following year he opened a gallery in Boston and eventually maintained galleries in thirteen cities. Plumbe opened the nation's first Washington, D.C. gallery in 1844. By 1848 P...

Holmes, George W.

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