Elijah Perkins Archives - Maureen Taylor The Photo Detective Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:26:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://maureentaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-site-icon-32x32.png Elijah Perkins Archives - Maureen Taylor 32 32 99869351 Ask Maureen: Ambrotype Marks https://maureentaylor.com/queries-and-answers-ambrotype-marks/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:37:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/queries-and-answers-ambrotype-marks/ Merry wrote in with a question about marks on an ambrotype: I’m doing some photo detective work of my own–if I have a cased, sealed ambrotype with a stamped mat (E.R. Perkins), can I assume that the photographer was probably the person stamped on the mat? That might help me narrow down where the picture […]

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]]> Merry wrote in with a question about marks on an ambrotype:
I’m doing some photo detective work of my own–if I have a cased, sealed ambrotype with a stamped mat (E.R. Perkins), can I assume that the photographer was probably the person stamped on the mat? That might help me narrow down where the picture was taken, right?

Congratulations on researching your photos! If you have a cased image such as an ambrotype with a stamped mat you’re right to assume that identifies the photographer. An excellent resource on photographers in the daguerreotype era is John Craig’s Daguerreian Register. There is an Elijah R. Perkins listed who worked as an ambrotypist from 1856 to 1860 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He was in Salem, Massachusetts in 1859.

Hope this is a match!

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