WikiPedia definition of "daguerreotype"
The daguerreotype (original French: daguerréotype) was the first successful photographic process. It was developed by Louis Daguerre together with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.
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A Daguerreotype is a method of creating photographs that is no longer in general use. A man called Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process in France in 1839.
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851) was a French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.
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Ezra Greenleaf Weld (October 26, 1801 – October 14, 1874), often known simply as "Greenleaf", was a photographer and an operator of a daguerreotype studio in Cazenovia, New York.
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Francis Bicknell Carpenter Daguerreotype: Born: August 6, 1830 (1830-08-06) Homer, Cortland County, New York: Died: May 23, 1900 (aged 69) Nationality: American
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OUP, 1924 ^ Beaumont Newhall: The Daguerreotype in America, 1976 (Google books) ^ The Bransfords of Mammoth Cave (Mammoth Cave National Park bulletin)
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He learned daguerreotype photography from John B. Bailey of Boston, who like Ball was "a freeman of color." [4] Ball opened a one-room daguerreotype studio in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1845 ...
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A Daguerreotype. Accessed 23 January 2006. George Eastman House; 'Cromer Collection - Part III'; "Unidentified Girl". Accessed 23 January 2006.
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Because of the high cost of materials and the technical difficulty of properly exposing the plates, Daguerreotype panoramas, especially those pieced together from several plates ...
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The daguerreotype, although stunningly beautiful, was rarely used by photographers after 1860, and had died as a commercial process by 1865. One person who tried to use the ...
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