Isaac Augustus Wetherby daybooks [microform], 1839-1862.

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Isaac Augustus Wetherby daybooks [microform], 1839-1862.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70968501

These volumes include personal entries, biographical and family information, clippings, medical recipes and records of payments received for paintings and photographs.

2 v.

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8058316

Iowa State Historical Society

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Wetherby, Isaac Augustus, 1819-1904

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Wetherby was born in Rhode Island. He began painting portraits at the age of 15 and worked as a medical illustrator and a farmer before moving to Iowa City in 1854. He opened a photography studio in 1862, becoming the city's first professional photographer. Wetherby's career was given a boost by the Civil War when soldiers visited his studio to be photographed in their uniforms. In 1874 illness forced him to retire and turn his studio over to his son, although he continued painting. Wetherby's p...