- D. B. Cooke & Co.’s City Directory for the Year 1859
Shaw William, daguereotypist, Clark se cor Monroe, bds 114 Monroe
Halpin & Bailey’s City Directory for the Year 1863
Shaw William, photographer, 188 and 188½ Clark, h. same
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
Shaw & Peterson (William Shaw and Lewis Peterson), photographers, Cottage Grove av. sw. cor. University pl.
Shaw William (Shaw & Peterson), r. 186 Clark
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1873
Shaw William, photographer, 137 22d
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1875
Shaw William, photographer 148 State
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Shaw William, photog. 174 S. Halsted, house 235 W. Congress
Chicago Tribune, August 8, 1863
To The Public.
Having just returned from New York, where I was a witness to bloody scenes during the late disgraceful riot, I am about to publish Stereoscopic Pictures from negatives I made there while the rioters were engaged in their work of death and destruction; and during my stay there, and in other Eastern cities, I have come in possession of all their improvements that are know to the art. I shall make Carte de Visites at two dollars a dozen that will compare with any work that is done in the East.
William Shaw,
188 and 188½ Clark street.
Chicago Evening Mail, February 27, 1872
Town Talk.
Shaw’s panoramic view of the ruins can be had of Lovejoy & Foster for $5.
- The Great Conflagration of Chicago.
View of the north side, fifth day after the fire. Photograph taken from the top of the tower of the Water Works.
William Shaw, Photographer, 137 Twenty-second Street, Special Artist of ‘Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News’.
Chicago Tribune, February 20, 1875
Shaw’s Gallery—Special Features of Photography.
Among those of our photographic artists whose connection with the business dates back to the practical commencement of photography in Chicago, is William Shaw, No. 148 State street, whose acquaintance with the trade and the older population of the city is almost universal, his ancient establishment on Clark street, near Monroe, having been for fifteen years, and from the primitive days of the art down to the date of the conflagration, the permanent headquarters of a considerable portion of the community for all that was in vogue in the old styles of daguerrean portraits. Although still practicing photography in all its details, Mr. Shaw has made a specialty—in which he has achieved reputation and success—of object photographing,—the photographic copying or portraiture of objects and forms, machinery, mechanical implements, articles of merchandise, architectural plans, etc., mainly for commercial purposes. His equipment in this line is very complete, and includes upwards of forty costly instruments and implements, a collection of upwards of twenty years.
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