Researchers have developed a technique that can retrieve images hidden in degraded daguerreotypes—an early form of ...

click image for close-up By the time this photograph of Pierce Butler was taken, the wealthy plantation owner's 14-year marriage to Fanny Kemble was nearing its end. He had filed for divorce in ...

Daguerre gave his name to the daguerreotype, the first fully-fledged form of photography, that he revealed in January 1839. Just a few days earlier, Daguerre is credited with pointing a telescope ...

Margaret Maher was a Tipperary-born housekeeper, who had immigrated in the post-famine years. Like many Irish, the Maher ...

As technology advanced across the centuries, capturing movement via photography evolved: the invention of the daguerreotype, ...

In 1835 he placed his plates in a cabinet, not knowing that a container of mercury had a leak in it and was emitting vapor into the enclosed space, thus creating the first daguerreotype.

[TOP LEFT] Glenalvin Goodridge, Untitled (man with books), sixth plate daguerreotype, undated. Museum purchase made possible through the Franz H. and Luisita L. Denghausen Endowment. L. J. West ...

His invention, later named the daguerreotype, was based on a special property of silver iodide: when exposed to light, the molecules undergo a chemical transformation that can be turned into ...

Dunham helped Chapman track down the stereoviews’ photographers Joseph Adams Green and his son William Herbert Green who are ...

Surviving records indicate he had only partial success: His resulting daguerreotype images—an early photography technique invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1839, involving treating a ...

Ostendorf's book details a visit Lincoln made to a photographic studio before his speech. Local party officials escorted him to T.W. Cridland's work space on Third Street, where the photographer made ...