Sixth-plate dageurreotypes, left: 1845 right: 1853 by the Meade Brothers Studio. National Portrait Gallery Mary Ann Meade. Sixth-plate daguerreotype, 1850 by the Meade Brothers Studio. National ...

McGuffey House and Museum is fortunate to have the three daguerreotypes in its collection (not on display). The cases carry the label “W.A. Retzer, Daguerreotypist, Charlottesville.” Retzer first ...

He had filed for divorce in 1848, contending that she had "willfully, maliciously, and without due cause, deserted him on September 11, 1845." Kemble, who had in fact been driven away by Butler ...

The museum highlights the artistic and technological evolution of photography in the U.S., in a show full of surprising details and vivid pictures.

1845. The photo, shown above, was made by French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault. They used a daguerreotype, what was really the first kind of photography; a metal plate was treated ...

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 ...

In 1839, Samuel Morse was in Paris to obtain a patent for the electro-magnetic telegraph he had developed in America, when he caught wind of another scientific wonder of the age: the daguerreotype.

24 in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Daguerreotype of James Fitzjames, taken by Richard Beard in May 1845. Part of the expedition's history is known thanks to Fitzjames ...

The circa 1846 daguerreotype was purchased for $456,000 at auction in June, and it depicts Madison in her later years, at some point in her 70s. Madison, who was the wife of James Madison ...

He had filed for divorce in 1848, contending that she had "willfully, maliciously, and without due cause, deserted him on September 11, 1845." Kemble, who had in fact been driven away by Butler ...