Foreign stereographers / publishers - Miller & Brown

In Darrah's opinion, "in the early 1860's, R. A. Miller (Boston) issued fine, probably the best, views of the Azores and Madeira" [Darrah 1997, p. 144]. Highly praised as Darrah's opinions normally are (and rightly so), there are a number of other stereographers who also produced fine views of the Azores, in some cases better than some of Miller and Brown images that came to my knowledge. Just to mention a few native stereographers, A. J. Raposo and L. P. S. Correa produced some fine images of the islands, and so did Manuel Goulart, who was certainly the most prolific stereographer of the Azores.
I am not aware of the process that led from R. A. Miller to the Miller & Brown company, but cards with each of these marks are listed below. Miller and Brown's views normally appear in dark yellow card mounts, sometimes without any identification (but sharing the Miller and Brown style known for the identified cards), although some views mounted in orange cards are also attributed to R. A. Miller. Those that are identified carry a "R. A. Miller" label or a vertical imprint (in which case the known views have square-corner images), as shown on the right.

The type of card mounts are shown below:

	Yellow flat card mount with square-corner images. Identification in the backside in the form of a vertical imprint saying "Photographed by Miller & Brown, 63 Court Street, Boston." No card number or caption (the views that I know have a handwritten caption in the backside).
	Backside of the card above. Printed vertically on the right: "Photographed by Miller & Brown, - 63 Court Street, Boston."
	Yellow flat card mount with square-corner images. Identification in the backside in the form of a label represented below (courtesy of Nuno Borges de Ara�jo).
	Backside of the card above, carrying a label that says: "Azores Views - [image number and caption] - Photographed by R. A. Miller, 63 Court Street, Boston."
	Yellow flat card mount with round-corner images. No identification (my views show the same type of handwritten captions in the backside, as in the first card above).
	Orange flat card mount with square-corner images. No identification, but a handwritten comment vertically on the right (in red) indicates "Photo by Miller".

Further reading:

[Darrah 1997]
William C. Darrah, The World of Stereographs, Land Yacht Press, 246 p., 1997 (second edition of the book originally published in 1977), ISBN 0-9650513-1-5.

(see the views)

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