More Than “An Elegant Accomplishment”: Sarah Garrett Hewes and Pennsylvania's Early Female Photographers

sarah j. weatherwax has worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia since 1993, serving as curator of prints and photographs since 1996. She received a BA in history from the College of Wooster (Ohio) and an MA in history from the College of William and Mary. She has written articles for the Daguerreian Annual, The Magazine Antiques, Stereo World, and Imprint, has coauthored a book about nineteenth-century photographic views of Center City Philadelphia, and has contributed a chapter about lithographer Peter S. Duval to Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828–1878 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012). She has curated exhibitions on topics as diverse as music in Philadelphia, Philadelphia daguerreotypes, and the work of William Rau, the Pennsylvania Railroad's official photographer. Her research interests also include women in photography and Philadelphia's built environment.