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Itinerant photographers


 
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The traveling "professors" of the 19th century. Explore the world of the wagon-based studio and the entrepreneurs who brought the luxury of a portrait to the furthest reaches of the frontier.

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Follow the Wagon.

Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to itinerant photographers and showmen
Hand bills and broadsides
2Handbills, broadsides and paper-based promotional material
Tents
3Studios in tents
Photographic vans, wagons and cars
4Photographs of photographic vans
Barges and boats
5Studios on boats and barges
Railroad studios
6Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains
7J.B. Silvis: Photograph car
8Backmarks for railroad photograph cars
Travelling showmen
9Hunter S. Smith: Autobiography of a photographic showman
10Hugh Mangum (1877-1922): Itinerant photographer
11Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: The Biter Bit
12Ann Parker: Itinerant photographers of Guatemala (1970s)

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