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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1978
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WASHINGTON — The process was invented in France by a
Frenchman, Louis J.M. Daguerre, but Americans fell in love with it,
improved it and embraced it. For a time — from 1840 to 1860 —
almost every American with a quarter to spare posed for Daguerre’s
marvelous portrait machine.
The faces of distant kin popped up in fancy frame on every parlor
table. Even the dead were photographed; many stories were told of
the weeping widow at the bedside sending a child for the daguer-
reo typist.
The daguerreotype democratized portrait-making.
“This was really something new under the sun,” says art historian
Harold Pfister, who in the last three years has become an expert.
“Heretofore, to possess one’s own image, someone had to draw it
or engrave it or paint it or sculpt it. Now with a couple hours’ training
he could make your picture.”
Mark Twain commented on how “dim children, parents, cousins,
aunts and friends” showed up “in all attitudes but customary ones, all
of them too much combed, too much fixed up. ”
(An uncombed youthful Samuel Clements posed, too, wearing a
belt buckle that said “Sam. ”)
Between 1840 and 1860, when other forms of picture making came
along, uncounted millions of daguerrotypes were made, some by
daguerreans who roved from farm to farm.
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The process produced a picture on a polished silverplated copper
sheet.
Much like the original Polaroid, only one image was made — there
was no photographic negative from which any number of prints could
be produced, though a daguerrotype picture could be redaguer-
rotyped.
Pfister, an administrator at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gal
lery, was assigned in 1975 to look into the prospects of a daguerrotyj
show. No major museums had ever mounted one, because the image;I
are small and mirrorlike: they demand to be held in the hand,nj
mounted. |!
Pfister, 30, became intrigued, and he travelled the country, trad.]
ing down 110 evocative daguerrotypes. They are on display in
ington until Feb. 4, a gallery of haunting images.
Every family on American soil at the time of the claguerreotypfj
probably posed. Millions of daguerreotypes remain, tucked away
Often they are on sale at antique shows for a few dollars.
But, he advises, never try to clean the silver plate. IfitJ
hopelessly tarnished, get professional help. If you think yourdaguei j
retype is of someone famous or of value, consult a museum p'
raphy department.
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WASHINGTON — Jewish
groups conducted an organized
campaign to keep an ABC-TV
documentary about the Palestine
Liberation Organization off the air,
a network spokeswoman charged
today.
The hour-long program, broad
cast in most American cities
Monday night, was “Terror in the
Promised Land,” part of the ABC
News “Close-up” series. It gave a
frank and occasionally sympathetic
look at the PLO and some of the
“suicide squads” of terrorists who
attack Israeli civilian targets.
Network spokeswoman Mary
Fifield told UPI the program
triggered about 3,000 protest tele
phone calls to ABC stations around
the nation, about half of them before
the program started.
The calls apparently were the re
sult of “what we can only call a cam
paign” by the Anti-Defamation
League of the B’nai B’rith, Ms.
Fifield said.
She said most of the callers, when
questioned, turned out to be young
and Jewish, occasionally read pre
pared statements, and said they
were told to make the calls by their
rabbis or teachers.
The narrator of the program, an
chorman Frank Reynolds, closed it
with a personal commentary ex
plaining that he participated only
because he believed the program
would increase American public
understanding of a complex prob
lem.
program in advance of its broadtaj
The documentary was prewdi
and followed by disclaimerssayiij
did not imply support or sym]
for the PLO.
The program was not coma!
cially sponsored. The s[
said it was felt that “Close-up”ssj
commercial sponsors should la
been given more notice of then
troversial nature of the program
the network decided to remove
paid commercials.
He told UPI the commentary
“was there at my insistence.”
A press release put out by the
ADL before the documentary was
aired said the program “martyrizes
the PLO” and that “it distresses us
that ABC glamorizes these murder
ous thugs.”
Reynolds and other ABC con \
spondents were unhappy about!
content of the program as iti
originally prepared by prodt:
Malcolm Clark.
The ADL, in keeping with ABC
policy, had not been able to see the
As a result of their objectionir
eral script changes were made
an interview, giving an Israeli^
of view, was added shortly
the broadcast.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A high school teacher who readsaU
to her classes every day says it helps poor readers and improves thei’
capabilities.
Kathy Schnier of Martinsville, Ind., told a recent reading confer
ence on the Indiana University Bloomington campus that herdaih
reading deliberately has no strings attached.
“I’ll just say, ‘Here’s something neat I want to share with you,
they can relax and enjoy the story because they know I’m not
test them on it later today, tomorrow or next week.”
She said she also devotes one class period a week to reading mate
rials the students choose for themselves.
“It’s like playing the piano or making free throws in basketball,
takes practice. And, since they are poor readers, it isn’t very lib
they’re going to practice at home.”
She also recommends that teachers make reading materials suchai
paperbacks, newspapers and magazines easily available to students in
their high schools.
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