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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to mobile studios
Contemporary accounts
2Avery's Portable Daguerreotype Saloon (1847)
3Contemporary account of itinerant photographers in America (1856)
Photographic vans
4Photographs of photographic vans
5Contemporary sources on photographic vans
6Roger Fenton: The artist's van
Railroad photographic cars
7Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains
8Backmarks for railroad photograph cars
9J.B. Silvis: Photograph car
Studios on barges and boats
10Studios on boats and barges
Tent studios
11Studios in tents
12Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
Beach photographers
13Beach photographers

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