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Fire Monument, to be Built of Safes and Columns taken from the Ruins.
Creator
George N. BarnardAmerican Photographer · 1819–1902
All works by this person →One of the first persons to open a daguerreotype studio in the United States, George Barnard set up shop in Oswego, New York. In 1854 he moved his operation to Syracuse, New York, and began using the collodion process, a negative/positive process that allowed for multiple prints, unlike the unique daguerreotype. Along with Timothy O'Sullivan, John Reekie, and Alexander Gardner, Barnard worked for
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- 1872
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- Albumen silver print
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Illustration of the proposed monument in Garfield Park in rememberance of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
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