A find at the recent Daguerreian society meeting has expanded the date range of Ken Nelson’s collection of post daguerreian era images. Also now in the collectors’ gallery it is a sixth-plate image on a plate manufactured in the 1850’s but the image dating from the 1890’s, signed on the paper tape seal. According to Romer (History of photography vol 1, No. 1, July 1977) and other sources, Steffens was a premier Chicago photographer who briefly revived the daguerreotype in his studio between 1890 and 1900. He used vintage plates and equipment, but apparently took advantage of electricity for his buffing wheels.