Sobieszek, Robert and Odette Appel. The Spirit of Fact. The Daguerreotypes of SOUTHWORTH & HAWES, 1843-1862. 163 pp. text illustrated with approximately 80 plate reproductions. Large, oblong 4to, cloth. Rochester, International Museum of Photography, 1976.

Romer, Grant B., and Brian Wallis (editors), et al. Young America: The Daguerreotypes of SOUTHWORTH & HAWES. 552 pp., roughly 150 color and 2,000 b&w illustrations. Stout 4to, cloth. New York, George Eastman House/International Center of Photography, in association with Gottingen, Steidl, 2005.
The studio of Southworth and Hawes operated from 1845 to 1862, making portraits of leading citizens and landscape images in the new medium of daguerreotype. This book, which accompanies an exhibition at the International Center for Photography, shows the importance this firm to the emergence of a characteristically American aesthetic in the middle of the 19th century.