{{Short description|19th century daguerreotype photographer}} {{Distinguish|Summer Smith}} '''Summer A. Smith''' was an American photographer who worked in the 1850s and 1860s and was an early creator of daguerrotypes.

== Career == thumb|''Blacksmith Forging a Horseshoe'', c. 1859–1860, by Summer A. Smith Smith was one of eighteen professional women photographers who worked in Pennsylvania prior to 1870.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hudgins |first=Nicole |title=The Gender of Photography: How Masculine and Feminine Values Shaped the History of Nineteenth-Century Photography |publisher=Routledge |year=2020 |isbn=9781000211504 |pages=250}}</ref>

Smith was active in the 1850s and 1860s, including a stint in Philadelphia and Montrose, Iowa.<ref name="sothebys">{{Cite web |title=Summer A. Smith |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/photographs-n09642/lot.10.html |access-date=2022-01-30 |website=Sotheby's}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Palmquist |first1=Peter E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNipzykMBEIC&dq=%2522Summer%2520Smith%2522%2520daguerreotypes&pg=PA558 |title=Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865 |last2=Kailbourn |first2=Thomas R. |date=2005 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-4057-9 |pages=558 |language=en}}</ref> While in Philadelphia, Smith boarded at one of the several inns known as the Black Horse Tavern and operated a daguerreotypist studio nearby.<ref name="sothebys" />

Two of Smith's prints are included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.<ref name="MFAH">{{cite web |title=Summer A. Smith: Blacksmith Forging a Horseshoe|url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/137018/blacksmith-forging-a-horseshoe|website=mfah.org}}</ref>

== Notable work ==

* ''Blacksmith Forging a Horseshoe'', 1859-1860<ref name="sothebys" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=MFA H Annual Report 2017-2018 |url=https://static.mfah.com/documents/mfah-annual-report-fy18.6495991913163811554.pdf |page=82}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

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