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167 Notes Introduction 1. William Henry Jackson, Time Exposure, 173. 2. Wood, The Scenic Daguerreotype, 2. For example, the daguerreotype scholar John Wood has written that “most American scenic daguerreotypes are boring documents of middle-class egotism which again and again do no more than record their owners’ painfully ordinary stores, houses, and barns.” William Welling, as well, in his suggestion that “America was still without an accomplished landscape photography school in the 1860s,” supposes a lack of cultural or aesthetic complexity in the photographs that were produced (Photography in America, 171). 3. See, for example, Hales, William Henry Jackson; Sandweiss, Print the Legend; and Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs. Additionally, much of my own point of view is deeply informed by postmodern photographic theory, most notably Crimp, “Photographic Activity of Postmodernism”; Krauss, “Note on Photography”; Rosler, “In, Around, and Afterthoughts”; Sekula, “On the Invention of Photographic Meaning”; and Solomon-Godeau, “Photography After Art Photography.” 4. Armitage, “From the Inside Out,” 33, and Worster, “New West, True West,” 149. Worster’s essay was reprinted in The American West: Interactions, Intersections, and Injunctions, which brought together a number of useful essays concerning regional interpretations, including Martin Ridge’s essay “The American West: From Frontier to Region.” See also Limerick, “Region and Reason.” 5. DeBow, Statistical View of the United States, 126. 6. Greeley et al., Great Industries. 7. Ibid., 881. 8. Ibid., 874–81. 9. Ibid., 880. 10. Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers and Palmquist and Kailbourn, Pioneer Photographers. Carl Mautz’s encyclopedic effort in Biographies of Western Photographers, although it overlaps with Palmquist and Kailbourn’s “biographical dictionary,” focuses on the historical West and includes states such as Iowa and Missouri that are now popularly considered to lie outside the region. Palmquist and Kailbourn’s work focuses on the Far West and excludes midwestern states. 11. The Peter Palmquist collection of more than fifty thousand images is located at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, as part of the Western Americana Collection. Concerned mostly with the history of women in nineteenth-century photography and images from Humboldt County, the Palmquist collection also includes his extensive research materials. 168 Notes to pages xxi–6 12. John Johnson, Eureka, 7–8, as quoted in Welling, Photography in America, 10. 13. “America in the Stereoscope,” 221. 14. Masteller, “Western Views in Eastern Parlors”; Ostroff, Western Views and Eastern Vision; and Bradley Bennett Williams, “Image of the American West.” 15. “America in the Stereoscope,” 221. 16. Glover, Philadelphia Photographer, 239, 339, 367, 371. Written in August, Glover’s last correspondence appeared in the same October issue as his obituary. See also Fleming, “Ridgeway Glover, Photographer.” 17. Glover, Philadelphia Photographer, 371. Taft recounts Glover’s story in Photography and the American Scene, 275–76. 18. William Henry Jackson, Time Exposure, 245. 19. Ibid., 145–246. 20. Roche, Anthony’s Photographic Bulletin, 268–69. Reprinted in Welling, Photography in America, 211. 21. Roche, Anthony’s Photographic Bulletin, 211. 22. See, for example, Schlissel, Women’s Diaries; Schlissel, Far from Home; and Kolodny, The Land Before Her. 23. See, for instance, Roberts, Longinus on the Sublime. For later contributions on landscape aesthetics, see Burke, Philosophical Enquiry; Gilpin, Three Essays; Price, Essay on the Picturesque; and Knight, Analytical Inquiry. 24. See Kinsey, Plain Pictures. 25. “Outdoor Photographs,” 129. 26. Ibid. 27. Ibid. 28. Snelling, preface to Dictionary of the Photographic Art, v. 29. Edward Anthony to H. H. Snelling, letter, February 1, 1849. Reprinted in Snelling, preface to History and Practice. Snelling wrote for and edited The Photographic Art Journal in New York from 1851 to 1853 and the Photographic and Fine Art Journal from 1854 to 1860. 30. Although a list of influential studies on the topic of Euro-Americans and the western landscape is large, a few notable works include Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land; Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind; Goetzmann and Goetzmann, West of the Imagination; Marx, Machine in the Garden; and John Brinkerhoff Jackson, Discovering the Vernacular Landscape, 8, where he wrote, “a landscape is not a natural feature of the environment but a synthetic space, a man-made system of spaces superimposed on the fact of the land.” Chapter 1 1. Goddard, Where to Emigrate and Why, 278. 2. The most current scholarship on Easterly includes Kilgo, Likeness and Landscape, and Sandweiss, “Picturing Change.” 3. New York Herald, May 21, 1849. See also Henry M. Whelpley, “The Group of Mounds That Gave St. Louis the Name of Mound City,” paper presented at the meeting...
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