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Unidentified photographer / artist, 1850, Camera, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/55604
1850, Sheet music for Fuller's Daguerreotype Polka as played by the Druid Band. Composed and arranged for the Piano Forte by Sebastian Muller and respectfully dedicated to the patrons and visitors of Fuller's Daguerreotype Gallery., Sheet music, Private collection of Hans Gummersbach, LL/118104
1850, Fuller's Daguerreotype Polka" as played by the Druid Band. Composed and arranged for the Piano Forte by Sebastian Muller and respectfully dedicated to the patrons and visitors of Fuller's Daguerreotype Gallery., Sheet music, adjusted, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/60573
1850, Cost of daguerreotype plates, Book page, Google Books, LL/49722
Alois Löcherer, 1850, The transport of Bavaria's head from the ore foundry to Theresienhügel, Calotype, salt paper deduction from paper negative, Munchner Stadtmuseum, LL/102631
Carl Andreas August Goos (painter, 1797-1855), 1850, Portrait of Luise Wille [detail of hands holding the daguerreotype, rotated and adjusted to highlight the plate], Painting, Relatives of Luise Wille, LL/126786
Carl Andreas August Goos (painter, 1797-1855), 1850, Portrait of Luise Wille [detail of hands holding the daguerreotype], Painting, Relatives of Luise Wille, LL/126785
Carl Andreas August Goos (painter, 1797-1855), 1850, Portrait of Luise Wille [detail with signature and date], Painting, Relatives of Luise Wille, LL/126784
Carl Andreas August Goos (painter, 1797-1855), 1850, Portrait of Luise Wille, Painting, Relatives of Luise Wille, LL/126783
Carl Andreas August Goos (painter, 1797-1855), 1850, Portrait of Luise Wille [detail], Painting, detail, Relatives of Luise Wille, LL/126700
Carl Andreas August Goos (painter, 1797-1855), 1850, Portrait of Luise Wille, Painting, Relatives of Luise Wille, LL/126699
David Brokaw (artist, American, 1812-1878), 1850, Oberlin College Graduates, including Lucy Stanton Day Sessions, Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art, LL/128254
Hippolyte Bayard, 1850, South side of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris during restoration works (Face sud de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris pendant les travaux de restauration), Photograph, Musée d'Orsay, LL/90797
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, Nubie Village Et Temple de L'ile de Beghe, [Egypte, Nubie, Palestine & Syrie], Blanquart-Evrard print, from a paper negative, Archive Farms, LL/90735
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, Colosses du Ramesséum [Portique et Colosse brisé du Rhamesseum, à Chébea (Tombeau d'Osymandiad) - Portico and Fallen Colossus of the Ramesseum, Tomb of Ozymandias (Ramesses the Great), Thebes], [Egypte, Nubie, Syrie: Paysages et Monuments], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40397
Washington Allston, 1850, Book cover for 1850, Outlines and Sketches, by Washington Allston., (Boston: Stephen H. Perkins), Book cover, Private collection of Stephen White, LL/99928
Levi L. Hill, 1850, Title page for Levi L. Hill, 1850, A Treatise on the Daguerreotype; The Whole Art made Easy, and All the Recent Improvements Revealed (Lexington, N.Y.: Holman & Gray), Book cover, Google Books, LL/49721
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1850, Distortions of the Spine, Book page, Google Books, LL/35180
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1850, Andrew Jackson Davis, Book illustration, from a Daguerreotype, Google Books, LL/35332