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 ...

When Louis Daguerre presented his brand-new photographic technique in 1839, Donné leapt at the chance to modify it to capture his microscopic images to spice up his lectures to ever-growing audiences.

The first photographs ever made were shot using a process called the daguerreotype, which stunned the world. Almost 200 years later, a new auction at Christie’s is now set to bring us 200 ...

A daguerreotype of Lieutenant James Fitzjames ... shortly before the Northwest Passage expedition’s departure on 19 May 1845. Credit: Wikimedia Commons As far back as the 1850’s, search ...

On May 19, 1845, Franklin set out with two ships and ... in today’s money as a reward. “These are the daguerreotypes from which the engravings that were shown in the Illustrated London News ...

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 ...