Astronomers were among the first to embrace this technique; the first images of the sun and of a solar eclipse were both captured on daguerreotypes in the 1840s. By the end of the nineteenth ...

The L. J. West Collection comprises 286 objects dating from the 1840s through the 1920s and highlights diverse portrait subjects and objects related to abolitionists, the Underground Railroad and the ...

Catherwood also took daguerreotype views (early photography) as these had become comercially available by the time of their second expedition. His illustrations were preferred to the daguerreotypes ...

The daguerreotype was made in 1847 in the atelier of Louis-August Bisson. Up until now, only two daguerreotypes of Chopin were known about, made between 1840 and 1845, both of them lost during World ...