1844 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNALS
Version: Nov. 24, 2020
Journals listed in alphabetical order:
The TIMES [London]
1844 TIMES:
NOTES:
--Data has been gathered online using various word searches in the Times, which is somewhat hit-and-miss. Sometimes relevant entries were missed with that search but found through other searches. Thus one cannot rely on the Times word searches for complete accuracy. There are likely to be inadvertent omissions.
--Data has been organized by name or company title. This is easier to research given multiple ads.
~Names:
--When incomplete name published and full name is known, it has been
provided in brackets. Names in ALL CAPS. are in the
photography business; those w/o caps are not photographers and
their names might not have been indexed (e.g. if they were just
selling a camera but not in the business).
--When I searched avail. City and business directories, London
Photographers A-Z, and Ancestry.com, and did not find full
names, “[?]” has been noted. If unknown or several poss.
candidates, no data has been provided.
--Names in want ads were sometimes pseudonyms. They may, or may not
have been entered. My judgement.
--Initials only listed. When poss. these have been searched. If still
unidentifiable, they are listed under “Initials Only” section
--Occupations. Opticians, jewelers, publishers, framers, stationers, etc.
were also involved in the photographic business. When someone
is known to have a different occupation, that is noted. When
likely not a photographer but occupation cannot be ascertained,
“nog” = “no occupation given” is used. Non-photographers who
were merely advertising to sell or buy photographic items have
normally not been indexed in the master list of names.
~Anonymous entries: These ads usually have addresses. Until they can be linked
to a specific photographer or company, they are entered as anonymous.
The London Post Office Directory for 1856 (earlier one is 1851) has been
useful as organized by streets with building numbers and names as well as
business directory. If a match could be made, it was referenced under the
“Names” section; if only possible matches, then entry remains under
anonymous with suggestion.
--Addresses are in London or Middlesex unless noted.
--Dates for ads are rendered as month/day/, i.e. “(1/3) = “Jan. 3”. Many ads ran for long
periods of time. Only the first date an ad was located has been entered. This may
not be the first true entry, only the first found.
--Page numbers added only for articles, not for ads given their high volume. Page #s can
frequently be located doing an on-line search.
--Indexer’s discretion has been used in selecting which ads to index. Want ads for
equipment, studios, etc. normally entered only when they can be associated with
a specific person or relevant address. Indexer’s prerogative. Erred on data
capture side.
1844 TIMES [London]:
*DATA TAKEN FROM ONLINE SOURCE FOR 1844
* ANONYMOUS, c/o another person, or clearly not a photographer:
--5 Albany St., Regent’s Park, P. Vernon’s library (3/14)
--Improved daguerreotype or photography. Views, groups from nature,
etc. by a gentleman, late operator at the royal Polytechnic
Institution [Beard? Someone other than Beard?]. (3/14)
--244 High Holborn [a pawnbroker’s]:
--Daguerreotype camera to be sold, property of gentleman leaving
England (7/27)
* INITIALS, PSEUDONYMS ONLY:
L., M.:
--16 Wynyatt St., Goswell Road, Clerkenwell [no such address
located](4/25)
--Daguerreotype process can be learned from gentleman, late operator to
Dumont of Paris. Apparatus etc. avail.(4/25)
M., H. :
--Photographic Rooms, Victoria Road, Yarmouth (7/31)
--Wanted young man as operator at photographic establishment. (7/31)
* NAMES/TITLES from ADS:
BEARD, -- [Richard]:
--Royal Polytechnic Institution; 85 King William St.; 34 Parliament
St.; and Royal Poly (1/10)
--Licenses granted for using the invention in provincial towns and
districts (1/10)
--[see above anon. 3/14]
CLAUDET, -- [Antoine François Jean]:
--Royal Adelaide Gallery, Lowther Arcade, West Strand (1/10);
18 King William St. (4/6)
--Has taken the whole upper part of 18 King William St., Strand, private
entrance, extensive alterations, waiting rooms, private room for
ladies and communicating with his former establishment so that
persons wishing to visit may reach the department without passing
through the gallery. (4/6)
--Has returned from Paris where Daguerre communicated his last
improvements in the art (5/23)
--Claudet’s Talbotype (or Calotype) portraits. He entered into
arrangements with Fox Talbot for practicing this process called by
the inventor Calotype but justly named Talbotype. Produces on
paper what daguerreotype process did on silver plates. Once
portrait obtained unlimited copies can be made. Single portrait £1
1s; copies 5s (7/8)
EGERTON, -- [Jeremiah]:
--1 Temple St., Whitefriars (8/8)
--Sole agent of Voigtlander & Son daguerreotype lenses (8/8)
JOHNSON, --:
--Photographic Rooms, Ducie Place, Manchester (4/20)
--Persons wishing to practice the art under a percentage in Lancashire,
Cheshire or Derbyshire now have opportunity (4/20)
LEREBOURS, N. P.[Noel Marie Paymal]: (optician to the observatory)
--Published treatise on photography; trans. by J. Egerton (4/22)
TALBOT, H. Fox [William Henry Fox Talbot]:
--“The Pencil of Nature” published (9/6)
[Voigtlander & Son = see Egerton]
WILLATS, Thomas (optician)
--98 Cheapside (9/13)
--Photographic cameras, equipment, chemicals, etc. Directions for
obtaining photographic pictures on paper by the Energiatype and
Calotype processes (9/13)
NEWS STORIES:
--Dec. 18, 1844, p. 5:
“How to forge Bank of England Notes.” Reprinted from New York Journal of Commerce. [summary] Simple method of making permanent engraving of a daguerreotype likeness or sketch. Applied for patent but illness prevented him from completing. Frenchman secured similar patent. Now first person to secure patent in the US. Has copied Bank of England notes. BofE paid until discovered 2nd and 3rd note with same number, letter etc. being offered at the same time. To prevent counterfeits suggests strong colours on currency printed transversely.