| LC control no. | nr2001027117 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Walker, S. L., 1802-1874 |
| Variant(s) | Walker, Samuel Lear, -1874 Walker, Samuel Leon, 1802-1874 Walker, 1802-1874 Walker, Samuel Lear, d. 1874 |
| Birth date | 1802 |
| Death date | 18740425 |
| Place of birth | New Salem (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers |
| Found in | Ferris. Biog. sketch of Jonas Williams, 1852: t.p. (Walker; daguerreotypist) His Col. Thomas J.C. Amory, 1861: t.p. verso (S.L. Walker, at Adams' Gallery, Worcester, Mass.) Rinehart, F. The Amer. daguerreotype, 1981: p. 413 (Walker, Samuel L.; daguerreotypist at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; d. about May 1874) Craig's daguerreian registry, 1994 (Walker, Samuel Lear; daguerreotypist at Troy, Albany, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 2013: p. 1465 (Walker, Samuel Leon (1802-1874); one of the earliest daguerreotype photographers in the United States; widely regarded as one of the best photographers during the 1840s and 1850s; had a studio at Albany, N.Y. before moving to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1847; b. 1802 at New Salem, Mass.; d. 25 Apr. 1874 aged 72 years) George Eastman House, via WWW, Sept. 2, 2014: All Things Under the Sun, Still Photograph Archive (Walker, Samuel Leon (1802-1874)) CraigCamera, via WWW, Sept. 2, 2014 (Walker, Samuel Lear (1802-1874); daguerreian at Troy, Albany, Poughkeepsie, and Newburgh, N.Y., 1843-1874; d. Apr. 25, 1874 at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (Walker; first name unknown; daguerreian, probably in Massachusetts, in 1849; noted in a partnership with a Mr. Adams) America's Historical Newspapers, Sept. 2, 2014: National Aegis, Worcester, Mass., Nov. 19, 1864: (Prof. S.L. Walker; "daguerean" artist; for the last 24 years been practicing the sun-beam art in the principal cities in the state of New York, and now returns among us at the Adams Gallery, 239 Main St.); St. Albans Daily Messenger, St. Albans, Vt., Apr. 27, 1874 (Prof. S.L. Walker, one of the first in this country to make pictures from sunlight died at Poughkeepsie, Saturday) MWA/NAIP files, Sept. 5, 2014 (access point: Walker, S. L., 1802-1874; note: middle name appears variously as Lear or Leon) |
| Associated language | eng |
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