Fredricks' Photographic Temple of Art, Broadway, New York
Artist
Charles D. Fredricks
(American, 1823 - 1894)
Date1857
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 16 1/8 × 13 1/2 inches (40.96 × 34.29 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.291
InscribedOn back: "Collection - Albert Gilles" ink stamp; and "(Calotype) Temple de l'art Photographique, New-York en 1853" in pencil.
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DescriptionImage of a row of shops lining an empty street. The four-story shop in the center displays an arched sign which reads "Fredricks' Photographic Temple of Art".Gallery LabelIn bold letters illuminated by hundreds of lamps, the words “FREDRICK’S PHOTOGRAPHIC TEMPLE OF ART” arch 60 feet across two buildings and over two and a half stories. Not one for subtle advertising, Charles D. Fredricks opened his New York City gallery at 585 Broadway the year this photograph was made. Fredericks himself can be seen standing inside the arched window, and signage in the shapes of a camera and sun adorn the building’s façade. These two oversized symbols further advertised the photographer’s trade.
Purchased from Keith de Lellis by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1995;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
See Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1982): 58.
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Charles D. Fredricks
ca. 1865
2005.27.3504.A,B
