Summer A. Smith was an American photographer who worked in the 1850s and 1860s and was an early creator of daguerrotypes.

Career

Blacksmith Forging a Horseshoe, c. 1859–1860, by Summer A. Smith

Smith was one of eighteen professional women photographers who worked in Pennsylvania prior to 1870.[1]

She was active in the 1850s and 1860s, including a stint in Philadelphia and Montrose, Iowa.[2][3] While in Philadelphia, she boarded at one of the several inns known as the Black Horse Tavern and operated a daguerreotypist studio nearby.[2]

Two of her prints are included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[4]

Notable work

References

  1. ^ Hudgins, Nicole (2020). The Gender of Photography: How Masculine and Feminine Values Shaped the History of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 250. ISBN 9781000211504.
  2. ^ a b c "Summer A. Smith". Sotheby's. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  3. ^ Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (2005). Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865. Stanford University Press. p. 558. ISBN 978-0-8047-4057-9.
  4. ^ "Summer A. Smith: Blacksmith Forging a Horseshoe". mfah.org.
  5. ^ "MFA H Annual Report 2017-2018" (PDF). p. 82.
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