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 ...

With the introduction of daguerreotype technology in 1839—followed by ambrotypes ... West Collection comprises 286 objects dating from the 1840s through the 1920s and highlights diverse portrait ...

Up until now, only two daguerreotypes of Chopin were known about, made between 1840 and 1845, both of them lost during World War II. Most likely, these were also created by Bisson – the owner of one ...

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 daguerreotype was the first widely available ... It was the most popular and accessible form of photographic image-making ...

caught on a daguerreotype portrait, clearly did not want to stay still for the camera Ms Quinn explained that calotypes were not the only photographic format on the market in the 1840s.