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Houston photographer announces "pictures on glass"
On this day in 1852, J. H. S. Stanley, Houston photographer, advertised
that he had "succeeded in taking pictures on glass," probably using the
collodion process. Stanley was born in England around 1799 and lived from
1850 to 1870 in Houston, Texas, where he made daguerreotype portraits.
Though he was reported to be an amateur at the time he moved to Houston,
he opened a portrait studio sometime after his arrival. A few years later
his photographic work won praise in The Photographic Art-Journal
and Humphrey's Journal. In December 1851 Stanley announced the
completion of the Daguerreian Sky-Light Gallery and his partnership with
FitzGibbon and Bourges of Galveston, an association that apparently had
dissolved by April 1852. In November 1851 Stanley publicized his ability
to take portraits and views on glass, ivory, or paper, "with duplicates to
any required extent," indicating that he was experimenting with a
negative-positive process at an early date. Despite his 1852 announcement,
he made no mention of the glass-plate process in later advertisements.
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- STANLEY, J. H. STEPHEN
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