If you grew up here, chances are you either rode the Zephyr at Pontchartrain Beach or heard family members wax nostalgic ...

Among a collection of daguerreotypes for sale at Christie’s is one made by Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 23, 1840, a New Yorker named John William Draper ... Capturing the moon in a so-called daguerreotype image involved long exposures, and Daguerre had some technical difficulties while ...