The more skillful Electrotyper would prefer Smee's, and this is the one most generally in use.
"American Handbook of the Daguerrotype"
Samuel D. Humphrey
Nothing can arouse the indignation of your friends, regardless of party, so much as the thought that while you are working so hard in the postoffice at Washington with your coat off, collecting box rent and making up the Western mail, the remorseless engraver and Electrotyper are seeking to down you by making pictures of you in which you appear either as a dude or a tough.
"Remarks"
Bill Nye