Abraham Bogardus tells in his article In the May Century on "The Lost Art of the Daguerreotype," how Americans learned about Daguerre's process. Prof. S. F. B. Morse constructed the first ...

believed to be the first photograph of a U.S. first lady. 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 ...

Some question the daguerreotype’s provenance — its history ... establish what is now the Community of Christ and became its first president. Upon seeing the tiny image, Larsen “just knew ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US first lady. The quarter-plate daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley ...

Sotheby’s is offering a recently surfaced 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison, who is credited with inventing the role of first lady. By Jennifer Schuessler Sometime around May 1846 ...

The historian’s first impression was that the man staring at him from the 1844 metal daguerreotype was not Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith. To Lachlan Mackay, an apostle with the Community ...

Photo of a pioneer woman in the 1840s by Ezekiel Hawkins. By 1841, Cincinnati had its first daguerreotype photo studio, which used the process invented by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre of Paris ...

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 ...

Cincinnati had some of the earliest practitioners of the new art. Ezekial Hawkins opened the city’s first daguerreotype studio on Third Street in 1841, just two years after the process was ...