Clark Street, Looking North from Court House.

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Clark Street, Looking North from Court House.

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George N. Barnard

American Photographer · 1819–1902

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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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Date: negative 1871; print 1872
Medium: Albumen silver print
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of the destruction on Clark Street from the courthouse building after the fire. Piles of rubble and debris cover the ground on both sides of the road in front, where a group of men gather around a horse-drawn cart to survey the damage.

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