Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2018. It feels special, even from a distance. We are standing a couple feet in front of Cincinnati 170 years ago, in front of an eight-plate ...

The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...

DOVER — In the summer of 1850, a traveling daguerreotype artist arrived in Dover with a horse and cart. In the cart were the camera, chemicals and materials needed to make images appear on ...

The barber had one. So did the shopkeeper, the taxidermist and the wheelwright. In 1840s America, portraiture was no longer the prerogative of the elite, laboriously painted in oil on canvas. With the ...

Before digital, before film, before tintypes and the collodion process, before the word “photography” was even official, French inventor Louis Daguerre gave us the daguerreotype. It was the first ...

Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The ...