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SIXTH-PLATE MYRON SHEW DAGUERREOTYPE OF A WOMAN woman wearing a bonnet, hand tinted skin, housed in a Myron Shew case with attribution to paper inside case 'MYRON SHEW, Dealer in Dagguerreotype [sic] Materials, No.116 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.', in brown leather case with verdigris to bottom edge of mount case 9.3cm high x 8.3cm wide x 1.7cm deep LITERATURE Myron Shew (1824-1891) Myron Shew was born near Watertown, N.Y. In 1841, he and his brothers Trueman, Jacob and William began daguerreotyping in Watertown. They moved and built a skylight gallery in Ogdensburgh. They travelled to Rochester and then to Geneva, N.Y. Still not profiting from the process, they moved to New York City and established the firm of L.P. Hayden & Co. at Park Place. It is interesting to note that in 1842, when Edward Anthony was listed as a daguerreian at 11 Park Row, this was the address one source documents as having been recently vacated by the four Shew brothers. In 1841, John Plumbe Jr. reportedly hired the Shew brothers to manage several of his galleries. It is unknown where Myron worked, as he is first listed in 1847-1848 as a daguerreian and daguerreian case maker in Boston, Mass., zat 11-1/2 Tremont Row. The following year, he was listed at 123 Washington Street, in business with Willian Shew & Co. From 1849 to 1852, Myron Shew was listed as a daguerreian and dealer in daguerreian apparatus in Philadelphia, Pa., at 116 Chestnut Street. He lived at 76 South Fourth Street.One source reports that Shew (with brother Jacob) purchased the Van Loan Gallery at 118 Chestnut Street in 1851, moving in on June 1, and sold the gallery to McGowan in 1853. From 1853 to 1857 he was listed at 118 Chestnut Street and lived at 108 Walnut Street. In 1858 and 1859 he was listed at 322 Chestnut street. In 1860 he was noted in the directory as a "gentleman"' OTHER NOTES id-1a