Credits and Bibliography

This digital exhibit on portraiture and early photography in Bloomington was written and curated by Gabby Krieble, Wylie House Museum Assistant and grateful iPhone photographer. It was made possible by Wylie House Museum's director, Carey Champion.

Thank you to the Indiana University Archives, the Monroe County History Center, and the Indiana Album for their supportive research on this topic.

Bibliography

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "carte-de-visite." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 10, 2016. https://www.britannica.com/technology/carte-de-visite.

Carrick, Alice Van Leer, Shades of Our Ancestors: American Profiles and Profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928.

Hostetler, Joan E. Directory of Indiana Photographers. The Indiana Album Inc., 2021.

Knipe, Penley. "Shades and Shadow-Pictures: The Materials and Techniques of American Portrait Silhouettes" in The Book and Paper Group Annual, vol. 18. The American Institute for Conservation. Fall 1999. 

Naeem, Asma, Penley Knipe, Alexander Nemerov, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and Anne A. Verplanck. Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Price, Nelson. "Historic Photographers and their Studios." Interview with Joan Hostetler. Hoosier History Live. Podcast audio. October 16, 2020.

Spaw, Rod. "A New Resource in the Research Library." Monroe County History Center Research Library. Blog post. December 9, 2019.

Theophilus Adam Wylie Family Correspondence, 1806 - 1930, (bulk 1850 - 1930), Collection 2005.003.2849, Wylie House Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Further Reading

Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, “Interesting Characters by the Lines of Their Faces” in Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now. Edited by Asma Naeem. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2018. Excerpt available from Lapham's Quarterly here.