Veteran New York Daguerreotypist: At first sitters were invariably taken at full length. To Americans, the first cartes-de-visite imported from France seemed comical. Abraham Bogardus, a veteran New York daguerreotypist, recollected that "it was a little thing; a man standing by a fluted column, full length, the head about twice the size of the head of a pin. I laughed at that, little thinking I should at a day not far distant be making them at the rate of a thousand a day."
In 1850 Levi L. Hill, a Baptist minister and professional daguerreotypist of Westkill, New York, announced in the public press that he had succeeded in fixing the colors of nature on daguerreotype plates. He showed examples of his work to leading American daguerreotypists. The editor of the Daguerreian Journal was so impressed that he said "Could Raphael have looked upon a Hillotype just before completing his Transfiguration, the palette and brush would have fallen from his hand, and his picture would have remained unfinished."
It has, of course, been thoroughly refitted and superbly decorated, with the chic befitting its adoptive parent The lie de France, of 45,000 tons, is another big ship, long popular with bans vivants and with thousands of common or garden francophiles. The Flandre, of 20,000 tons, is quite as French as her big sisters, but its fares are lower.
6. German transatlantic steamer service is finally being re-established in a small way, for the reviving North German Lloyd has acquired the veteran Swedish ship Gripsholm, overhauled it thoroughly, renamed it the Berlin and jntered it on the New York-Germany run. We may expect to see this once-great ine advance swiftly. |
