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14. Pierre G. Harmant, "Daguerre's Manual: A Bibliographical Enigma," History of Photography, 1 (January 1977): 79-83; see also R. Derek Wood, The Arrival of the Daguerreotype in New York (New York: American Photographic Historical Society, 1994), 1-2.

15. William Welling, Photography in America: The Formative Years, 1839-1889 (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1978), 9. The original article appeared in Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, 14 (1882), 76.

16. Facsimile reproduction of Seager's letter of 7 November 1839 to the American Institute appears in "Photography comes to America," Image 1 (January 1952): 2.

17. Ibid.

18. Mabee, American Leonardo, 228.

19. Charles E. West to the editor, 10 February 1883, New York Times, 19 February 1888, p. 3, col.7.

20. Samuel F. B. Morse to M. A. Root, 10 February 1855, Samuel F. B. Morse Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (hereafter cited as Morse Papers); Prime, Life of Morse, 403; see also Marcus A. Root, The Camera and the Pencil (Philadelphia: M. A. Root, 1864; reprint ed. Pawlet, Vermont: Helios, 1971), 344-48.

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