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Contents

Information requests
1Improving content on US states
Introduction
2Introduction to photography in Pennsylvania
Daguerreotypists
3Joseph Saxton: Philadelphia Central High School for Boys and Pennsylvania State Arsenal
4Robert Cornelius: Daguerreotype portraits
5Samuel Broadbent: Daguerreotype portraits
6Marcus Aurelius Root: Daguerreotype portraits
Case study
7The Daguerreotype studios of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Photographers
8James Cremer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
9A.H. Hemple: Centennial views of Philadelphia and Fairmount Park [Series]
10Dr. C.L. Lochman: Carlisle, Pennsylvania (1861-1874)
11John N. Choate: Indian Training School, Carlisle, PA
Events
12Johnstown Flood (1889)
Railways
13Purviance: Purviance's Views, Penn'a Central Rail Road
Industry
14Lufkin: Lufkin's Photographic Views - Oil Regions of Pennsylvania
15West & Waddell: Stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania Oil Regions. (1860-1890)
16H.T. Clauder: Scenery in and around Bethlehem, Pa. [Series]
Documentary
17Walker Evans: USA: Pennsylvania
18W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project

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