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HAAS, PHILIP (ACTIVE 1840s–1860s)
German daguerreotypist

Born in Germany around 1808, Philip Haas emigrated
to the United States in 1834 and established himself as a
lithographer and print publisher in Washington, D.C.
When the invention of the daguerreotype was an-
nounced in 1839, Haas possibly went directly to Paris
to learn the art. Although his earliest documented da-
guerreotype is dated March 1843, Haas was still among
the fi rst resident daguerreians in the nation’s capital.
With his image of John Quincy Adams in 1843, Haas
became the fi rst to produce a lithograph directly from
a daguerreotype. In 1844, he moved to New York City
and established a daguerreian gallery on Broadway.
Between 1844 and 1860, he moved up Broadway at
least four times.
In 1861, at age 53, Haas lied about his age to enlist
with the First New York Engineers, which was sent to
South Carolina. Here, he was detailed with Washington
Peale to shoot photographs. Their most distinctive image
shows the USS New Ironsides in action in Charleston
Harbor as the smoke from its broadsides trails into the
southern sky.
Haas apparently was weakened by ill health in 1862.
He resigned from the army on May 25, 1863 and from
here the trail of his life is lost.
Bob Zeller

HAES, FRANK (1833–1916)
English photographer

Frank Haes was born on 3 January 1833 in the Hambro
Synagogue, London and died in 1916 in the same city.
He fi rst exhibited his photography in 1858 at the age
of 25, by which time he had emigrated to Australia and
married London-born Adele Valentine in Sydney. The

1858 exhibition of the Photographic Society of London

included fi ve of his views of his adopted city.

By the early 1860s, the family was back in London,

and Haes was earning a reputation as a photographer of

stereoscopic views of zoo animals—including what is

acclaimed as the fi rst photograph of a living elephant,

and rare photographs of a quagga! These stereocards

were published by McLean & Haes of 26 Haymarket,

London. McLean & Haes also produced cartes de visite,

even designing and manufacturing their own four-shot

camera specifi cally for the purpose. A rear-focussing

half plate studio camera was designed and marketed by

the enlarged partnership of McLean, Melhuish & Haes

in the later 1860s.

At the International Exhibition of 1862, McLean &

Haes achieved awards for their ‘coloured photographs,’

and two years later they wrote to W.H.F Talbot to ar-

range to photograph Talbot as part of a series they were

creating of Fellows of the Royal Society.

When the 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia was published,

Haes was acknowledged as one of those who had pro-

vided illustrations.

John Hannavy

HALE, LUTHER HOLMAN (1823–1885)

American daguerreotypist

Luther Holman Hale, one of Boston’s better known

daguerreian artists, was listed with a gallery there from

1845 to 1862. He was born September 21, 1823, in

Milbury, Massachusetts, and apparently fi rst went into

business with his brother, C. E., on Milk Street in Boston

before opening his own gallery.

From 1846 to 1850, with Benjamin French as a

partner, Hale did business at the L. H. Hale & Co.

Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms at 109 Washington

Street, advertising: “Miniatures taken in any weather,