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Last Name Humphrey
Given Name Samuel Dwight
alt. Names S. D. ;
Marriage w. Mary Amelia Thompson
Children 5 children.
Year born 1823 in Hartland, Connecticut, USA
Year died 1883
Place of death Tower City, Dakota, USA
Father's occupation Lester Humphrey (1796-1823) and Roxanna Miller (1796-?)
Relatives http://records.ancestry.com/Samuel_Dwight_Humphrey_records.ashx?pid=134770033&te=2 ;
Education
Country of Activity United States of America
Worked for American hand book of the daguerreotype ; Humphrey's journal of the daguerreotype and photographic arts, and the sciences and arts pertaining to heliography; A practical manual of the collodion process ;
Patronage
Collaborators
Techniques astronomical daguerreotype ; scientific photography and ambrotype ;
Sample(s) http://preserve-new.harvard.edu:8883/exhibits/daguerreotype/detail07.html ;
Archival sources Harvard College Obs.; www.daguerreotypearchive.org/texts/P8590006_HUMPHREY_HJ_1859-02-15.pdf ; www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/167 ;
Published sources The Humphreys family in America, 1883 ; Q. Bajac: Dans le Champ des Étoiles (Paris 2000: 52 &115) ;
other see also http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Humphrey%2C%20S.%20D.%20%28Samuel%20Dwight%29%2C%201823-1883%22
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