Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes

Born: West Farleigh, VT/Weyland, MA, 1811/1808

Died: Boston, 1894/1901

Nationality: American


Works by this Artist

Postmortem Unidentified Child
Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes, c. 1850

Background

Southworth

born 1811 in West Farleigh, VT

died 1894 in Boston

Hawes

born 1808 on a farm in Weyland, MA

died 1901 in Boston

Studies

Southworth studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; photography with Samuel F.B. Morse (1839)

Hawes began as carpenter's apprentice; photography with Francis Gouraud (Boston, 1841)

Career

Southworth

began as pharmacist in Chicopee, MA

1839 - learns daguerreotype process

1841 - opens studio in Boston, specializes in society portraits

1843 - forms partnership with Hawes (until 1863)

1849-51 - participates in California Gold Rush

1863 - Southworth left partnership with Hawes and becomes forensic graphologist

1870s - gives series of lectures at Natonal Photographc Association

Hawes

1841 - sees first daguerreotype; studies photography

1843 - forms partnership with Southworth

1849 - marries Southworth's sister Nancy

1863 - Southworth dissolves partnership; Hawes continues as photographer until his death

Readings

Romer, Grant B. Young America: the Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes. Exhibition catalogue. New York: International Center of Photography, 2005

Sobieszek, Robert A. The Spirit of Fact: the Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, 1843-1862. Boston, MA: D.R. Godine, 1976

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