Stereographs project
Business locations
New Orleans, LA, US
Apalachicola, FL, US
New York, NY, US
[4-5] Made stereo dags, none known of FL. Early wide-ranging dag. worker, LA, FL, Caribbean, England; New Orleans, 44, partnership with William Hutchins; Apalachicola, FL 45 -- "Still
in city taking colored miniatures."; 46-48 in
New Orleans; exhibited at American Institute,
NY, forty views of West Indies, two views of
Florida, the Cotton Landing, Apalachicola, and
Key West; according to the Daguerreian Journal,
considered disposal of collection to a
well-known illustrated paper in London; traveled
to South America in 52; returned to U.S. in
fall, opened gallery in New York City and
engaged in making stereoscopic daguerreotypes --
"The Stereoscopic likenesses and views exhibited
by Whittemore...Splendid collection of West,
Indians and South America. Exhibit free. Every
size of daguerreotype taken." During the
Crystal Palace Exhibition (NYC) in 53,
daguerreotyped works of art to aid engraver for
illustrated catalog. Sold gallery in 53, seems
to have left photography; name does not occur in
following years. SEE Humphrey's Journal, 53,
p.89.
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) |
| Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
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