Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet used the new technology to create the first photographs of Jerusalem in early November 1839, just three months after the announcement of the daguerreotype. He was quickly ...

I looked closely at the photo (it was beginning ... were used to protect daguerreotypes from shattering (they resemble a woman’s make-up compact) were an example of early thermoplastic technology.

[TOP LEFT] Glenalvin Goodridge, Untitled (man with books), sixth plate daguerreotype, undated. Museum purchase made possible through the Franz H. and Luisita L. Denghausen Endowment. L. J. West ...