Editorial comment for this plate:

A PORTRAIT.

The pretty child picture which embellishes our magazine this week is from a negative by Mr. W.H. Shuey, Vice-President of the Chicago Camera Club, and President of the Douglass & Shuey Company, the well-known merchants in photographic supplies of Chicago. “There is little to be said about the picture,” writes Mr. Shuey, “except that it was made in the studio of the Chicago Camera Club, and developed with a combination of eiko and hydro.” Mr. Shuey writes further that he made his first picture only a little more than two years ago. This portrait certainly speaks well for one who has practiced photography so short a time, indeed it might reflect credit on the oldest photographer.

Amateur photographer William H. Shuey was a member of the Chicago Camera Club. In 1891, Shuey is listed as president of the Douglas & Shuey Company of Chicago, located at 211 State Street. (Anthony’s Photographic Bulletin) This firm sold “Everything used in Photography“, including “Portrait and View Outfits, Lenses and Accessories, Pure Chemicals, (and) The Greatest Variety of Dry Plates in the West.” (1.)

1. Advertisement in: The Photographic Image: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise of the Development in the Gelatine, Collodion, Ferrotype and Silver Bromide Paper Processes: New York: Press of William R. Jenkins: 1891