Capturing “Jove’s Autograph”: Late Nineteenth-Century Lightning Photography and Electrical Agency

Abstract

On September 5, 1885, Scientific American published a photograph depicting a “streak of real ‘Jersey lightning,’” taken by William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946) at 10:30 p.m. on the first of August that same year.

Keywords

• 2.1
• laura turner igoe
• nineteenth-century art
• photography
• william n. jennings