How to Spot a Daguerreotype Copy with Erin Waters

The Photo Detective

This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Erin Waters, who has taken over the family business of FineDags.com, a website that’s dedicated to helping individuals purchase daguerreotypes and understand more about their history.

Maureen and Erin talk about how to spot paper photocopies of daguerreotypes

Related Episodes:

Episode 105: Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US 1850-1900

Episode 122: Reproducing History and Protecting the Past: One Cased Image at a Time

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About My Guest:

Erin Waters started collecting photographs at age eight, following in her father’s footsteps. Her focuses include pre-revolutionary Russian images, interiors, and unusual photo postcards. Waters has a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from New York University. While in New York, she interned in Sotheby’s Photographs department. Her master’s thesis explored vernacular photography’s place in art museums, utilizing interviews with collectors, curators, and dealers.

Waters enjoys speaking about photography and has given papers at a number of international conferences on both copy photography and how people used photography in their personal spaces. Waters has been a full-time dealer since 2007, based in Lancaster, PA.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks

I'm thrilled to be offering something new. Photo investigations. These collaborative one-on-one sessions. Look at your family photos then you and I meet to discuss your mystery images. And find out how each clue and hint might contribute to your family history. Find out more by going to maureentaylor.com and clicking on family photo investigations.

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