Collection of the contents of the wallet of Benjamin F. Harrison, one of Jesse Whitehurst's daguerreotypists. Includes a leather wallet (probably cowhide), worked/stamped to resemble alligator. Most of these items are receipts. Probably the most significant is: Petersburg, VA August 7th 1851 / Received of B.F. Harrison due bill for Five Hundred dollars and thirteen cents in full in exchange of his half of Washington Gallery / for one half of Petersburg Gallery. (signed) J.H. Whitehurst. There is also a receipt for the purchase of a slave named Peter for $550, 1 Jan. 1850 to Benjamin Harrison. There is a receipt for rent for August 15, 1851 in Petersburg. Another is for Whitehurst in Oct. 1850 for a bureau, bed, cherry table, rocking chair and serving? glass, with additional charges for chairs and carpet, "charges above to B.F. Harrison." Another receipt is for $110 from Harrison for "Daguerreotype & Ambrotype stock." Signed G.W. Minnis, another daguerreotypist in Petersburg, and reportedly one of the most prosperous south of New York. One part of a piece of paper has the "recipe" or formula for "Powder Quick Stu____" Part of the recipe requires shell lime. Another receipt is from Cyrus Creedle, owing Harrison for "Daguerreotype stock & fixtures I bought of him." Dated 17 Oct. 1853, in New Bern, NC. There are additional receipts for furniture, etc. in the New Bern gallery. Many of these gentlemen started with Whitehurst (at least Harrison and Minnis appear to have). They were forming partnerships, buying each other out, etc. Together about 22 receipts and notes. Jesse Whitehurst (1819/1820/1823 [depending on source] - 1875) was born in Princess Anne County, VA. He trained as a cabinet maker in Norfolk, where he later opened his first photographic gallery in 1843. He would go on to open galleries in at least half a dozen cities - Baltimore, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Richmond in Virginia (besides Norfolk), Washington, DC, Wilmington, NC. and New York City. There may have been a few others as yet not verified, although there was probably a short-lived one in Charleston, SC. IN one of his ads, Whitehurst says that he had five galleries and was adding more. He also said he had 27 assistants running these. Harrison was initially employed at Wilmington. Lucian Vannerson (and maybe Julian Vannerson was in Richmond, as were several others; Edward Horwell was in Baltimore; T.W. Clark in Norfolk; H.O. Neal was in Washington. In 1852 he sold his gallery in New York to Jeremiah Gurney These were but a few of the daguerreian "paths" that crossed in Whitehurst's wake. Condition: Toning, folds, separations, as expected for paper in a wallet for over a century and a half.
Collection of the contents of the wallet of Benjamin F. Harrison, one of Jesse Whitehurst's daguerreotypists. Includes a leather wallet (probably cowhide), worked/stamped to resemble alligator. Most of these items are receipts. Probably the most significant is: Petersburg, VA August 7th 1851 / Received of B.F. Harrison due bill for Five Hundred dollars and thirteen cents in full in exchange of his half of Washington Gallery / for one half of Petersburg Gallery. (signed) J.H. Whitehurst. There is also a receipt for the purchase of a slave named Peter for $550, 1 Jan. 1850 to Benjamin Harrison. There is a receipt for rent for August 15, 1851 in Petersburg. Another is for Whitehurst in Oct. 1850 for a bureau, bed, cherry table, rocking chair and serving? glass, with additional charges for chairs and carpet, "charges above to B.F. Harrison." Another receipt is for $110 from Harrison for "Daguerreotype & Ambrotype stock." Signed G.W. Minnis, another daguerreotypist in Petersburg, and reportedly one of the most prosperous south of New York. One part of a piece of paper has the "recipe" or formula for "Powder Quick Stu____" Part of the recipe requires shell lime. Another receipt is from Cyrus Creedle, owing Harrison for "Daguerreotype stock & fixtures I bought of him." Dated 17 Oct. 1853, in New Bern, NC. There are additional receipts for furniture, etc. in the New Bern gallery. Many of these gentlemen started with Whitehurst (at least Harrison and Minnis appear to have). They were forming partnerships, buying each other out, etc. Together about 22 receipts and notes. Jesse Whitehurst (1819/1820/1823 [depending on source] - 1875) was born in Princess Anne County, VA. He trained as a cabinet maker in Norfolk, where he later opened his first photographic gallery in 1843. He would go on to open galleries in at least half a dozen cities - Baltimore, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Richmond in Virginia (besides Norfolk), Washington, DC, Wilmington, NC. and New York City. There may have been a few others as yet not verified, although there was probably a short-lived one in Charleston, SC. IN one of his ads, Whitehurst says that he had five galleries and was adding more. He also said he had 27 assistants running these. Harrison was initially employed at Wilmington. Lucian Vannerson (and maybe Julian Vannerson was in Richmond, as were several others; Edward Horwell was in Baltimore; T.W. Clark in Norfolk; H.O. Neal was in Washington. In 1852 he sold his gallery in New York to Jeremiah Gurney These were but a few of the daguerreian "paths" that crossed in Whitehurst's wake. Condition: Toning, folds, separations, as expected for paper in a wallet for over a century and a half.
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