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- Title
PICTURES FROM THE COLLECTION.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the penthouse studio of Edward Tompkins Whitney for daguerreotypes. It says that daguerreotypes taken are rare and those which show a daguerreotype gallery are scarce. The said studio is located on the roof of the Gould Block in Rochester, New York. He opened the gallery in 1851 and built a penthouse to accommodate an immense skylight, 12 x 16 feet, slanting 6 feet, and slanting 6 from the floor. The gallery had to locations and the customers were lured into the room off the street and climbed to the roof to pose for the daguerreotype camera.
- Subjects
ROCHESTER (N.Y.); NEW York (State); PENTHOUSE design &; construction; ROOFTOP construction; WHITNEY, Edward Tompkins; DAGUERREOTYPE; DIRECT positive processes; PHOTOGRAPHY; ART museums
- Publication
Image, 1958, Vol 7, Issue 4, p92
- ISSN
0536-5465
- Publication type
Article