The daguerreotype process of using mercury to develop pictures on polished metal, and the wet-collodion plate with its nitrocellulose solution are well-known, but as conservators at the British ...

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, ...

The French gifted the Daguerreotype process to the world, except for Great Britain. A patent was filed in Britain due to a long-standing rivalry. The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process ...

This was when the first permanent photograph was taken! It took 8 hours to take this photograph! The first galss negative was used in Daguerreotype process which involved exposure to make a negative ...

I knew I would first have to figure out if it were a real daguerreotype. I went to the Daguerrian Society, a reputable and keen group of collectors. Since daguerreotypes are made on a polished ...

Running the synchrotron imaging analysis on a daguerreotype gives the researchers ... It also adds new information about ...