(PHOTOGRAPHY) [BATTEY CORNELIUS] MACBETH ARTHUR LAIDLER Comp

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) [BATTEY, CORNELIUS.] MACBETH, ARTHUR LAIDLER. Composite silver print self-portrait of the photographer as Teddy Roosevelt, signed and inscribed to fellow photographer cornelius m. battey. 5x7 inches on the original photographer's mount with his blind-stamp on the lower right corner and ink stamp on the reverse. Baltimore, 1913

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Macbeth bore an uncanny resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt. Here he presents his friend and fellow photographer with a photo of himself as the president. Arthur Laidler Macbeth (1862-1944) was a pioneer in both still photography and cinema. He opened his first studio in Charleston, South Carolina in 1890 and a Baltimore studio in 1910. Macbeth invented "Macbeth's Daylight Projection Screen," for showing stereopticon slides and film in daylight. He studied under various European photographers and chemists and won medals at the Atlanta Cotton State Fair in 1895.