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"Chapter XVII Daguerreotypes, pages 171-77. Remarks on the display of Fitsgibbons which includes electrotypes from daguerreotypes and notes that printing plates can be made from them that result in prints resembling mezzotints.
George Michael Wolff (1696/1697-1746), a son of John George Wolff (b.1676), married twice and in 1739 the family emigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to New Castle, Delaware and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.