A cute kid in a sixth plate #daguerreotype, maker unknown
#ambrotype
#oldphoto
#casedimages

Great image of a of a woman seated on a wooden bench wearing gold tinted earrings, neckless, broach, and ring, #daguerreotype, maker unknown
#ambrotype
#oldphoto
#casedimages

South Carolina’s International African American Museum Officially Acquires Earliest Known Daguerreotypes of Enslaved Americans The International African American Museum in South Carolina has acquired the earliest known collection of images of enslaved Americans.

#photography
#photohistory
#daguerreotype
#slavery

Koya Abe: Digital Art Chapter 1.5 #14, 1999-2002. www.koyaabe.com

#koyaabe #Daguerreotype #Japan #samurai #photography

Koya Abe: Digital Art Chapter 1.5 #8, 1999-2002. www.koyaabe.com

#koyaabe #Daguerreotype #Japan #samurai #photography

#Photography
#Daguerreotype
#MontanaHistory
#HawaiiHistory

James Presley Ball, photographer, abolitionist, businessman (and grandfather of Alice Ball)

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #February14, 1849 In #NYC, #MatthewBrady takes 1st surviving #POTUS photo when he makes a #Daguerreotype of #JamesKnoxPolk.
#JamesKPolk #HistoryOfPhotography #Daguerreotypes #USPresidents #PresidentialSky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K...

Binh Danh’s photographs explore America’s national parks as political landscapes. Read the full article on Monterey County Now.

Binh Danh’s photographs explore America’s national parks as political landscapes. #binhdanh #nationalparks #politicallandscapes #daguerreotype #photographyexhibition #anseladams

One of the earliest-born humans ever to be photographed from boingboing rss feed

One of the earliest-born humans ever to be photographed
boingboing.net/2026/02/03/one-of-the-ea...
#centenarians #Daguerreotype #French_and_Indian_War #History #photography #boingboing

🇫🇷📸 #OTD in #History 9 January 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the #Daguerreotype #photography process, invented by #LouisDaguerre, to the world.

Koya Abe: Seamless #20 (Digital Art Chapter 2), 1999-2002. www.koyaabe.com/chapter2.html

#koyaabe #Daguerreotype #ICP #Japan #photography

Head over to our Instagram page for the second in a short, potted history about the medium we love - photography. @picselcollective

#daguerreotype
#historyofphotography
#Niepce
#Talbot
#PICSEL

#NationalPortraitGallery 's exhibition charts the evolution of early portrait photography: zorz.it/ZSRuK

#PesalaBandara #ambrotype #daguerreotype #MathewBrady#Smithsonian #PortraitPhotography #TintypePhotography #exhibition #evolution #analog

A youngster with a feathered fur hat and more buttons than necessary in a quarter plate #daguerreotype, maker unknown
#ambrotype
#oldphoto
#casedimages

NICAS Colloquium Online - 11 December 2025 - NICAS Throughout the year, NICAS organizes a bi-weekly Colloquium featuring short lunch lectures where researchers share updates, present new ideas, or discuss the outcomes of their work. The Colloquium aim...

Join me for an online talk about my PhD on Thursday, December 11, at noon: www.nicas-research.nl/event/nicas-...
The title is long and technical 😅: Explorative surface metrology of intaglio printing plates and etched daguerreotypes with optical confocal microscopy
#daguerreotype #photohistory

Happy Birthday Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851

Often called the father of photography.

This is the earliest known portrait of Abraham Lincoln as a 37 year old lawyer, using his #Daguerreotype process.

Unknown Photo of Great American Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson is Discovered A long-lost and unrecorded photograph of one of America’s most influential thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson has been discovered. [Read More]

These Historical Figures Lived Long Enough to be Painted and Photographed Photography changed how the establishment preserved its image.

PetaPixel has an article comparing early photographs with paintings of the era. The paintings are quite photographic, but did the painter take liberties? #daguerreotype #believeinfilm
petapixel.com/2025/11/04/t...

These Historical Figures Lived Long Enough to be Painted and Photographed Looking at paintings of historical figures, it can be difficult to know whether that's what they really looked like, or whether the painter was being interpretive -- perhaps pressured by the subject. [Read More]

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (October 21, 1804 – December 7, 1892) #Daguerreotype #Photography #PhotoSky

185-Year-Old Voigtländer Daguerreotype Camera Auctioned for $580,000 The seventh Wetzlar Camera Auctions (WCA) saw over 250 total lots of historic cameras and accessories, primarily Leica cameras, sold to enthusiastic and well-heeled collectors this past weekend. Numerous Leica cameras sold for huge sums, but the star of the show, at least from a historic perspective, was a Voigtländer metal Daguerreotype camera from 1840. It sold for €500,000, or nearly $580,000, after a heated bidding war. [Read More]

185-Year-Old Voigtländer Daguerreotype Camera Auctioned for $580,000 The seventh Wetzlar Camera Auctions (WCA) saw over 250 total lots of historic cameras and accessories, primarily Leica cameras, sold to enthusiastic and well-heeled collectors this past weekend. Numerous Leica cameras sold for huge sums, but the star of the show, at least from a historic perspective, was a Voigtländer metal Daguerreotype camera from 1840. It sold for €500,000, or nearly $580,000, after a heated bidding war. [Read More]

185-Year-Old Voigtländer Daguerreotype Camera Auctioned for $580,000 The seventh Wetzlar Camera Auctions (WCA) saw over 250 total lots of historic cameras and accessories, primarily Leica cameras, sold to enthusiastic and well-heeled collectors this past weekend. Numerous Leica cameras sold for huge sums, but the star of the show, at least from a historic perspective, was a Voigtländer metal Daguerreotype camera from 1840. It sold for €500,000, or nearly $580,000, after a heated bidding war. [Read More]

Studio Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843-1863)
"Girl with Portrait of George Washington", ca. 1850
#daguerreotype #photography #portrait #GeorgeWashington #StudioSouthworthandHawes #SouthworthandHawes

Taken while he was in Washington in 1842, the 'McKee' daguerreotype is the earliest known photograph of Edgar Allan Poe. The name of the photographer is not known.
#EdgarAllanPoe #daguerreotype #photography #TheRaven

#RedDeadRedemption2 #VirtualPhotography #PS5 #PSShare #Photomode #Daguerreotype

#RedDeadRedemption2 #VirtualPhotography #PS5 #PSShare #Photomode #Daguerreotype

#RedDeadRedemption2 #VirtualPhotography #PS5 #PSShare #Photomode #Daguerreotype

Historians May Have Found Colorado’s Oldest Known Photo Local historians believe they may have identified the oldest known photograph of Colorado -- a fascinating daguerreotype from 1853, taken during a doomed expedition across the American West. [Read More]