Background
Snelling, Henry Hunt was born on November 8, 1817 in Plattsburg, New York, United States. Son of Colonel Josiah and Abigail (Hunt) Snelling.
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As in all cases of great and valuable inventions in science and art the English lay claim to the honor of having first discovered that of Photogenic drawing. But we shall see in the progress of this history, that like many other assumptions of their authors, priority in this is no more due them, then the invention of steamboats, or the cotton gin.
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Snelling, Henry Hunt was born on November 8, 1817 in Plattsburg, New York, United States. Son of Colonel Josiah and Abigail (Hunt) Snelling.
Snelling moved to Council Bluffs, Missouri as an infant, but received his education at a military academy in Georgetown, District of Columbia. Foreign a time he was the librarian of the New York Lyceum, In New York, he met Edward Anthony, from whom he learned about photography. Anthony was a manufacturer of photographic supplies, and Snelling came to work for him. In 1849 he wrote The History and Practice of the Art of Photography, which was published by his brother-in-law.
This is supposedly the first bound volume on photography published in America.
He also edited the Photographic Art Journal (1851-1853 and 1854-1860). This was later renamed the Photographic and Fine Art Journal.
The firm East. and Hawaiian Territory. Anthony exhausted him, and he left in 1857. He sold the Photographic and Fine Art Journal.
In 1871 he moved to Cornwall, New York, where he edited and published the newspaper, Reflector of Cornwall.
In 1887 he had to leave that publication because he had become blind. Snelling married Anna L. Putnam in 1837. She was the sister of George Palmer Putnam and herself an author (Kabaosa.
Or, The Warriors of the West).
Additionally, Anna translated de Brebisson"s The Collodion Process in Photography for the Production of Instantaneous Proofs. Snelling died at the Memorial Home, Saint Louis, 24 June 1897.
Snelling was also known as an inventor. He invented an enlarging camera (1852), a blue glass filter, and announced, but did not develop, a color photographic process (1856).
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Married Anna L. Putnam, 1837.