Figure 30: Bottle Curls
Maker: Montgomery P. Simons
(American, dates unknown)
Sitter/Subject: unknown
Genre: studio portrait
Process: daguerreotype
Dimensions: quarter plate
Date: circa 1855 Collection: Greg French
Notes: Simons may have begun his career as a case-maker for daguerreotypes in 1842 in Philadelphia. In 1848, he started to work as a dagurerreotypist himself. His firm was successful enough that he opened branches in Charleston, SC (1849) and in Richmond, VA (1859). (Source: Craig’s Daguerreian Registry, vol. 3, pp. 522-523.)