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Fukuzawa Yukichi, then a translator and member of the Japanese embassy to the United States, and Theodora Alice Shew, the daughter of the photographer
William Shew, San Francisco, 1860
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Fukuzawa Yukichi, then a translator and member of the Japanese embassy to the United States, and Theodora Alice Shew, the daughter of the photographer
William Shew, San Francisco, 1860
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified Chilean sailor by San Francisco photographer William Shew, c. 1850.
Source: Sotheby’s.
Daguerreotype portrait of two unidentified men by San Francisco, California, photographer William Shew, c. 1854.
Source: Sotheby’s.
1860s Great DOG California CDV by daguerreian WILLIAM SHEW San Francisco | eBay
(via Carte de Visite RARE Early San Francisco California Beautiful Girl Hoop by Shew | eBay)
A la vida de las personas siempre llegamos tarde.
Javier Marías. Así empieza lo malo
Foto: Madre e Hija. William Shew (1820-1903)
Beautiful girl with porcelain skin sixth plate daguerreotype. Image is housed in an early William Shew leatherette case that reads "WM. SHEW, Miniature Case Maker, AND DEALER IN Daguerreotype Apparatus and Materials, COURT STREET, Opposite the Head of Hanover St. BOSTON." (via eBay)
Big Sister—cdv by William Shew of San Francisco, ca. 1867 (by gormer)