Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daguerreotype photography was invented by the French photographic pioneer Louis Daguerre (1789-1851) and was made public in 1839.

In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...

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Before digital, before film, before tintypes and the collodion process, before the word “photography” was even official, French inventor Louis Daguerre gave us the daguerreotype. It was the first ...

A top-hatted man stands in the foreground of this daguerreotype taken about 1845-47 by Thomas Easterly, showing a wide point in the Winooski River. The community of Winooski, then still a town, is in ...

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