Fredricks & Weeks

American itinerant daguerreotype photographers; partnership of Charles DeForest Fredricks (1823-1894) and Alexander B Weeks (born Brooklyn, New York, c. 1818-c. 1859); partnership agreed in New York on 13 April 1851 before leaving on their voyage to South America 19 May 1851; active Pernambuco, Brazil from 2 July 1851 to 21 September 1851, Montevideo, Uruguay, from 18 December 1851 to 27 January 1852 and Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 28 January 1852, before returning to the United States; Weeks was probably back in New York mid 1852, Weeks operating the business in New York while Fredricks was in Paris; partnership dissolved by January 31 1854, Fredricks buying out Weeks for $500;

Weeks had worked as a daguerreotypist with David Keith in Poughkeepsie, New York; 1843-1850s Fredricks worked in Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina; 1846-1854, Weeks works for J Gurney in New York City; 1854-1855 Weeks operated a studio in Toledo, Ohio; 1856 Weeks worked at Moses Sutton’s studio; 1858-1859 Weeks returned to work in Toledo; 1851 Weeks travels to Brazil, arriving in July, photographing inhabitants of Pernambuco; visited Montevideo, Uruguay in February 1852 before returning to the United States.