The daguerreotype is one of the earliest types of photograph in which the image is exposed directly onto a mirror-polished surface of silver bearing a coating of silver halide particles deposited by iodine vapor. In later developments bromine and chlorine vapors were also utilized, resulting in shorter exposure times. Unlike later photographic processes that supplanted it, the daguerreotype is a direct positive image making process with no "negative" original.
The daguerreotype is named after one of its inventors, French artist and chemist Louis J.M. Daguerre, who announced its perfection in 1839 after years of research and collaboration with Joseph Nicephore Niepce The French Academy of Sciences announced the process on January 9 of that year.
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The Library of Congress - Extensive online exhibitions of historic photographs and documents. Includes the American Memory Historical Collections, a display of American history in words, sound, and pictures.
Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush - View rare and historic daguerreotypes and ambrotypes made between 1848 and 1860, presented by the Oakland Museum of California. Includes descriptive commentary for each image.
Meta Description: [ Preview of an exhibition of one hundred and fifty stunning daguerreotypes and ambrotypes made between 1848 and 1860, presented at the Oakland Museum of California ]
A Sad Century Tale - Collection of vintage photos and postcards from Russian family albums, mainly featuring families and children.
Album 1900 - Historical photographs of people, mainly taken in Germany from 1870 to 1930.
American Museum of Photography - View great images from the history of photography, daguerreotypes to Ansel Adams. Features Americana, Civil War, Wild West, portraits, scenes, photojournalism, plus services for collectors and researchers.
Meta Description: [ View great images from the history of photography, daguerreotypes to Ansel Adams. Features Americana, Civil War, Wild West, portraits, scenes, photojournalism, plus information on preserving photos ]
Art and Medicine - A resource for scholars interested in vintage medical photography and clinical portraits. Includes the complete translation and 52 plates of Klinische Abbildungen by Heinrich Curschmann.
Bill's Antique Photo Pages - Personal collection of antique photographs.
Burns Archive - Collection of over 700,000 vintage photographs specializing in medical and historical images. Services offered include stock photograph licensing, research, and creation of exhibitions and documentaries.
Carte-de-Visite, Victorian Photographs - An Archive of small victorian photographs useful to those interested in the history of fashion and photography.
Meta Description: [ Victorian Photographs - A vast picture library of Victorian and Edwardian photographs, photo postcards, learn how to put a date an old family photo and much more, hours of fun! Roger Vaughan Personal Collection ]
Civil War Family Photographs - Site devoted to sharing private family Civil War photos. View images organized by Union, Confederate, and Veterans photo sections.
Daguerreotypes at Harvard - An online exhibition of daguerreotypes selected from Harvard's extensive collection. Includes notes and information about each image.
Digipic - Gallery of antique photographs from Imperial Russia including actors, children, men, women, military, and interior views.
Meta Description: [ Russia in an objective of photographers at the end of the 19 - the beginning of the 20 centuries. ]
Eldorado Web Productions Gallery - Collection of historic photographs taken in the Philippines and other Asian countries from the early 1900's to 1930. Includes steam ships, people, churches, rural housing, and U.S. Army Air Corps photos.
Meta Description: [ EWebPro - Galleries: World Trade Center, beheading, Corregidor, Manila, Intramuros, US Army Air Corps, Nichols Field, Pasay, Malabon, Santo Domingo Church, University of Santo Tomas, Coligio de Santa Rosa, Plaza Moraga, Plaza Espana, Malacanang, Empress of Russia, USAT US Grant, Ap-29, Boeing, PW... ]
Fine Antique Cameras - Display and collection of classic cameras, stereoscopic cameras, magic lanterns, stereoviews, viewers, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes.
Meta Description: [ This site is dedicate to the collectin of the vintage cameras, you can find a large show room of classic cameras, stereoscopic cameras, magic lanterns, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes ]
Fine Photographs - Brief story of the Daguerreotype. Includes an image gallery, shopping, and links.
Historical Graphics Gallery - Exhibits of photographs, political cartoons, advertising, and other 19th and 20th century pictures and illustrations, from Napoleon through the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt.
Meta Description: [ Exhibits of political cartoons, photographs, posters, illustrated advertising and other 19th and 20th century pictures from Napoleon through Uncle Sam and the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt and the woman suffrage movement. ]
Mendocino County Post Cards - Collection of historical views of Mendocino County, California. Photos include towns, street views, buildings, schools, mills, and people.
Mirror Images Daguerreotype Gallery - Site devoted to the history of the Daguerreotype. Includes information on identifying images, a photo gallery, email greeting cards, and links.
Meta Description: [ The biggest Daguerreotype Gallery on the net! ]
North American Tour ca 1885 - A site created to help try to identify the people and locations in a collection of 19th Century round photographs. Identified views include Yosemite and Hotel Del Monte, a Victorian hotel in Monterey CA.
Meta Description: [ Photographic record of a family tour of North America by ship, rail, and stagecoach ca 1885 ]
Photographies Stereoscopiques 1850-1871 - Online gallery of early stereoviews of Paris, Montmatre, Lyon, plus other areas of France and Egypt. Includes a brief history of photography, and links.
Meta Description: [ Un site dédié aux premières photographies stéréoscopiques. 1850-1871.(First stereoviews) ]
Photographs of Leeds - Gallery of vintage photos of Leeds, U.K. Also offers a selection of old advertisements.
Meta Description: [ Old Photos of the Leeds area ]
Pop Photographica - Incorporates vintage photographs onto 3-dimensional everyday objects used for interior design. Includes background information, gallery, and links.
Meta Description: [ Pop photographica; is a term I coined in 1988 to describe whimsical and profound 3-dimensional objects incorporating photographs and photomechanical images. ]
Stanhopes.info - Offering images, history, and information on Stanhopes, the miniature microphotographic lenses incorporated into many novelty collectables produced from the mid-19th century onwards.
Swastika Gold Mine - Collection of photographs printed from the original glass negatives that chronicle work at the Swastika Gold Mining Company site of 1911. Includes history and vintage news items about the mine.
The Daguerreian Society - Dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype. This site features galleries, extensive resources, and information.
Victorian Photographs - A collection of Victorian Studio photographs known as Cartes-de-Visite arranged by decade.
Meta Description: [ A collection of Victorian studio photographs known as Cartes, they are arranged by decade starting with the 1860's, they show the fashions of the time and an extensive picture library. ]
Wallace Nutting - A cross reference library consisting of hundreds of web pages of Wallace Nutting photographs and other collectibles.
Meta Description: [ The Wallace Nutting Library is the most extensive assembly of Wallace Nutting hand-colored photographs, Wallace Nutting furniture and Wallace Nutting books. Wallace Nutting was a nineteenth century Congregational Minister turned photographer who captured colonial America as it was. As it will nev... ]
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