0 the first successfully produced type of photograph
One of the most pathetic was a small daguerreotype of a beautiful young girl.
She had taken out a daguerreotype of her husband, and was looking at it.
She produced a piece of white paper in which the daguerreotype had been folded.
Then there were one or two daguerreotypes, little full-length figures framed in gold paper.
Initially, as is the case here, artists and later trades men took direct gelatin copies from the surface of the daguerreotype to produce lithographs.
Since early daguerreotypes required a fifteen-minute exposure, post-mortem images of children were easier to produce than images of live children.
This archive includes daguerreotypes, magic lantern slides, glass plate negatives and modern cellulose nitrate and acetate formats.
