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Unidentified Artist
The St. Anthony Falls, n.d., half plate
Collection of Charles Issacs

See at actual plate size.

I would have [the daguerreotypist] able to wield at pleasure the power of drawing nature in all her forms, as represented to vision, with lights and shadows, and colors and forms, in all of nature's changes. I would have him as familiar as with his alphabet of letters.
 

—Albert Sands Southworth,
"An address to the National Photographic Association," 1870