Thanks to David Haynes via PhotoHistory group io.
The Supreme Court has dealt another blow at the crippled-construction lunacy. The court decides that Congress has the constitutional power to grant copyright in photo-graphs. The objection raised was that a photograph is not a writing and a photographer is not an author. What a dilemma! Photography is an art that had no existence when the constitution was made. Had the court taken a narrow view of the constitutional clause the effect would have been to bring into question the copyright for maps, etc., and possibly musical compositions.
[Galveston] News, 23 March 1884 2:4
Waiting For Charlemagne 