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frame was thought of as odd looking. Matthew posed Lincoln in such a way as to
minimize his long neck and hands, giving him a more pleasing appearance—the look of a
Statesman. The resulting carte-de-visite was widely disseminated. See Roy Meredith, Mr.
Lincoln's Camera Man, Minneola, NY: Dover Publications, 1974.
10 Stereography was developed in 1832, before the daguerreotype. After the introduction
of the daguerreotype, stereo pictures where taken using a special camera with two lenses
mounted side by side. The end result would recreate a three dimensional vision when
viewed through a special viewer called a “stereoscope.” Stereograph viewing remained
popular until the early 1920s. See Points o f View, the Stereograph in America, Rochester:
Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1st edition, 1979.
11 Marien, Mary Warner, Photography: A Cultural History, Upper Saddle River: Prentice
Hall, 2002,81.
12 See Ellen Handy, “Japonisme and American Postcard Visions of Japan,” in Delivering
Views: Distant Views in Early Postcards, Christraud M. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb,
editors, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998, 91-113.
13 See Native Nations: Journeys in American Photography, edited by Jane Alison,
London: Booth-Clibbom Editions, 1998.
14 Marien, 179.
15 Weaver-Zercher, David, The Amish in the American Imagination, Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2001, 39.
16 See Plain and Fancy, a musical comedy, set in Pennsylvania Dutch country, about a
clash between New Yorkers and the Amish they encounter, written by Joseph Stein and
Will Glickman, 1955. See also Witness, a story about culture shock and romance when a
Philadelphia police officer lives with an Amish family to protect them when the family’s
young son witnesses a murder, directed by Peter Weir, 1985.
7 Stoltzfus, Louise, The Story o f Tourism in Lancaster Pennsylvania, Lancaster, PA:
Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, 2000, 1.
18 David J Walbert, Garden spot: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Old Order Amish,
and the Selling o f Rural America, Ph.D. dissertation, Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000, 143—
145.
19 From a color postcard, Amish Children o f Lancaster County, published by I. Steinfeldt,
Lancaster, PA., postmarked 1951.
20 Urry, John, The Tourist G