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OriginalNotes: PARENTS: Captain Joseph Whittredge
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EDUCATION: little formal education, father would not let me go to high school, "I went to work with the principle [sic] daguerreotypist of the place [Cincinnati] to learn how to take daguerreotypes and I was not long in obtaining all the knowledge necessary."
INDIANAPOLIS TIMES, 8 May 1940, "Our Town" column by Anton Scherrer, article on TWW
OTHER:Who Was Who in American Art, p. 677 states that he finished his autobiography in 1905.  Who was who Does not mention his daguerreotype experience. [Birthplace listed as Summit, NJ; death place Springfield, these are probably reversed]
Smithsonian Archives of American Art has the Anthony F. Janson research material on Worthington Whittredge, 1969-89, 1.0 ln. ft., donated 1993. Janson wrote monograph: Worthington Whittredge (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989)
Brooklyn Museum Journal, 1942 "The Autobiography of Worthington Whittredge, 1820-1910, Edited by John I. H. Baur (this was shortened to about 2/3s of original length), State b. in Ohio in 1820, spent boyhood on father's farm on Little Miami River near Springfield, at age 17 moved to Cincinnati where he worked for brother-in-law who was a house and sign painter; p. 11 "I Go in for Photography and Portraits, 1840-43"  discusses learning daguerreotypy in Cincinnati, moving to Indianapolis, failing due to "shin-plaster" money, selling camera and extra plates, painting "flaming transparency" for restaurant keeper to pay off balance of board, be became ill and was taken in by Henry Ward Beecher who he had known from Cincinnati,
Pioneer Painters of Indiana, Peat, p. 240: State that he d. in Summit, NY [probably typo: NJ?]
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OriginalSource: Photographers in Virginia, 1839-1900, A Checklist by Louis Ginsberg (Petersburg, VA, 1986)
p. 55: Miscellaneous section, Thomas Worthington Whittredge, worked with B. J. Jenks in Charleston, SC (See Artists in Virginia Before 1900 by R. Louis Wright, 1983)
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OriginalSource: Photographers in Virginia, 1839-1900, A Checklist by Louis Ginsberg, p. 55: Thomas Worthington Whittredge was an artist as well as daguerreotypist in mid 1840s at Charlestown. [This is probably incorrect.]

Brooklyn Museum Journal, 1942, "The Autobiography of Thomas Worthington Whittredge, 1820-1910," p. 13 discusses becoming portrait painter with Jenks in Charleston, WV; does not mention daguerreotypes at this time and he had already sold his daguerreotype camera in Indianapolis (in 1843?)
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OriginalSource: Brooklyn Museum Journal, 1942, "The Autobiography of Thomas Worthington Whittredge, 1820-1910," p. 11  discusses introduction of photography, Daguerre, Morse taking first daguerreotypes in the country. "The sensitized plates, cameras, in fact everything in the photographic kit, was made in France, and had to be imported into this country at considerable cost...cameras were being set up and studios opened in all eastern cities. One of these photographer's studios was opened in Cincinnati whilt I was painting signs there...A young friend who had a little money, but no taste or knowledge of art, proposed that we should go into the business, he furnishing the capital or most of it, while I was to take the pictures. We bought a camera imported from France and laid in a stock of plates and cases. I went to work with the principle daguerreotypist of the place to learn how to take daguerreotypes and I was not long in obtaining all the knowledge necessary. But my employer-teacher being well established in Cincinnati, there did not seem to be a good opening for another photographer in that city, so I decided to emigrate with a complete daguerreotype outfit to Indianapolis, then a pioneer town."
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OriginalSource: INDIANAP0LIS TIMES, 8 May 1940, "Our Town" by Anton Scherrer, letter from Whittredge written in 1909 describing stay in Indy.
Hist. of Indpls. & Marion Co., Sulgrove, 1884, p. 268: In 1842 Mr. T. W. Whitridge came here and remained longer [than other artists], made better impression, and did more work than any artist who at that time had been here. He opened the 1st daguerrean gallery here in the 2nd story of the frame building still standing on the cor. of Wash. St. and the alley on the S side bet. Meridian and Ill.  Some of his paintings are owned here still, and some kept by Mr. Beecher in his Brooklyn house.  The preacher was a warm friend and frequent visitor of the artist.

Henry Ward Beecher, The Indiana Years, 1837-1847 by Jane Shaffer Elsmere, (IHS, 1973):
p. 159 Beecher's small house in Indy was packed to overflowing in summer of 1842, with his family, a boarder, the artist Thomas W. Whittredge, and relatives (Eunice's cousin Julia Bullard and Henry's half brother, Tom.)
p. 164 An acquaintance of Beecher had taken up residence in Indy some months earlier. Whittredge, scion of a prominent Ohio family, met Beecher who was six yrs his senior when the latter was a student at Lane. Whittredge achieved indifferent success as a painter of portraits and landscapes, and became interested in the Daguerr process. Decided to open studio in Indy where he thought he would encounter less competition than in Cincinnati. He arrived with equipment and set up his business in building between Ill. and Meridian sts. on the south side of Washington St.  Customers were few, and Whittredge returned to painting to fill his time.
Young bachelor, came from good family, played guitar with proficiency, enjoyed considerable popularity in Indy. Attended 2nd Presbyterian Church. He became ill at Palmer House and Beecher procured carriage and drove to hotel and took Whittredge to live with him, where he stayed as nonpaying guest for almost a yr. Having no money he repaid them by painting their portraits. He also painted Tilghman A. Howard and some members of the legislature, but his commissions and dag. studio did not support him and in May 1843 after a sale of some paintings at Wiley's Auction Room he returned to Cincinnati.
p. 172 describes conversion of Whittredge at Indy revival, which pleased Beecher. Whittredge possessed an easy-going disposition and was not inclined to be troubled by doubts. His experience was happy and joy-filled. [Letter from Beecher to his father, 18 March 1843, is with the Beecher-Stowe Family Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA]
Indiana State Sentinel, 16 Aug. 1842, p. 2 Ad & editorial comment about Whitredge's, arrived in town w/ a splendid improved French apparatus, rms. over "new book store," over J. D. Thorp's Book Store. 1 sq. E. of Palmer House. Gov. Thomas Dorr's portrait there. Mr. W. remains but a short time. Ad ran 7 wks. "State Scrip taken in payment" later added to ad.


Brooklyn Museum Journal, 1942, "The Autobiography of Thomas Worthington Whittredge, 1820-1910," p. 12 Because there did not seem to be a good opening for another photographer in [Cincinnati], he decided to emigrate with a complete daguerreotype outfit to Indianapolis, then a pioneer town.
"Here I soon came to grief. It was the days of "shin-plaster" money; a dollar of Indiana money was worth thirty-five cents in Cincinnati, and much less when sent to Paris to buy my plates and cases. I was offered city lots in half payment for a family group, the difference to be paid in Indiana money to be sure, but I often did not even have that. After running completely ashore for lack of money, I had a conference with my partner. We concluded to sell the camera and all the plates we had left, we were ready even to sacrifice the portraits of a few distinguished members of the legislature taken originally as free advertisements. So they were sold, camera, plates, everything, and I painted at once a flaming transparency for a restaurant keeper to pay the balance of my board." Continued about painting portraits, living with Henry Ward Beecher family, being ill.

Indiana Daily State Sentinel, Dec. 31, 1842, description of Whittredge's studio, mentions unfinished painting of General Tilghman Howard [look up this article]
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