I am pleased to announce a new web site that you won't want to miss: "The 
Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait," a senior 
thesis by Ben Mattison. I contacted Ben a few weeks ago; he mentioned that 
he was going to make the paper available on the web, but Ben outdid himself 
and made a very nice web version of his paper. Be sure to stop by and (if 
you enjoy it...pretty much a given) don't forget to drop him a note. The 
URL is:

        http://www.easyway.net/~ben42/daguerre

You can also follow a link I've provided on The Daguerreian Society website 
at:
        http://www.daguerre.org/resource/links.html


Three short items today:
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On this day (December 9) in the year 1854, the following advertisement 
appeared in the "Boston Daily Evening Transcript":

D A G U E R R E O T Y P E   R O O M S   F O R   S A L E
--doing a fine business.  Address C. R. R., Post Office.

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and two advertisements in the 1854 "Portland Eclectic" (Portland, Maine; 
Vol. 5, No. 11):

     F R A N K.   M.   D A N I E L S O N.
              DAGUERREOTYPIST.
      NO. 163 MIDDLE STREET, PORTLAND.
42      SUCCESSOR TO S. H. STEVENS.          Tf
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     S m i t h   &   M o r r i s o n,
DAGUERREOTYPISTS, and dealers in DAGUERREOTYPE
MATERIALS, No. 91 Casco Block, Middle Street
Portland.                      35

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Posted for your enjoyment.      Gary W. Ewer       
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12-09-96