Many thanks to everyone who responded to my question about photographer reference sources. I have a number of good titles to look into now (if anyone is curious I listed the sources that people recommended below). Best, Bettina Bettina Smith Art Cataloger Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol St. SE Washington, DC 20003 phone: 202-548-8774 www.folger.edu - Index to American Photographic Collections [url <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33866194> /eng]; - Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists & innovators [url <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8552746> /eng]; - Contemporary photographers [url <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31010815&tab=details> /eng] George Eastman House's telnet database: http://www.geh.org <http://www.geh.org/> (and their print and CD-ROM versions of the same product) a 3 volume set _Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography_ ed. Lynne Warren the Gordon's Photography Price Annual that has information about 19th and 20th C. photographers (gordonsart.com) http://www.luminous-lint.com <http://www.luminous-lint.com/> Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography. New York: John Hannavy, ed. Taylor & Francis, c2007. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]