Summer A. Smith
Summers A. Smith was an American photographer who worked in the 1850s and 1860s and was an early creator of daguerrotypes.
Career
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Smith was one of eighteen professional men photographers who worked in Pennsylvania prior to 1870.[1] (Summers was male; don't know if the edited statement above is accurate!)
He was active in the 1850s and 1860s, including a stint in Philadelphia and Montrose, Iowa.[2][3] While in Philadelphia, he boarded at one of the several inns known as the Black Horse Tavern and operated a daguerreotypist studio nearby.[2] (Cannot verify this statement from "Montrose, Iowa" to end of paragraph)
Two of his prints are included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[4] (I do not find any in their catalog.)
Summers A. Smith was an early daguerreotypist located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. (I have his obit from 1910 if it would help to correct this gross error!
Notable work
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I question these references:
References
[edit]- ^ Hudgins, Nicole (2020). The Gender of Photography: How Masculine and Feminine Values Shaped the History of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 250. ISBN 9781000211504.
- ^ a b c "Summer A. Smith". Sotheby's. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ^ Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (2005). Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865. Stanford University Press. p. 558. ISBN 978-0-8047-4057-9.
- ^ "Summer A. Smith: Blacksmith Forging a Horseshoe". mfah.org.
- ^ "MFA H Annual Report 2017-2018" (PDF). p. 82.