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| Announcement |
| 1 | The announcement of photography OR Arago annonce la découverte de Daguerre |
| 2 | Introduction to the Daguerreotype |
| The process |
| 3 | The Daguerreotype |
| Early accounts |
| 4 | The Daguerrotipe - Private letter from Professor S.F.B. Morse to the editor of the Observer, dated, Paris, March 9th (1839) |
| 5 | The 'Daguerreotype.' - We have seen the views taken in Paris (1839) |
| 6 | Antoine Claudet: Advert for "the DAGUERREOTYPE; or, Nature delineated by Herself" |
| 7 | Visit to Plumbe's Gallery, New York (1846) |
| Manuals and instructions |
| 8 | Daguerreotype manuals and instructions |
| Daguerreotypomania |
| 9 | Daguerreotypomania |
| 10 | Interesting group posed for a Daguerreotype by a friend of the family / Interesting and valuable result (1855) |
| Publications that did, or said they did, use daguerreotypes as the basis for their illustrations |
| 11 | The influence of the daguerreotype upon art |
| 12 | Paris et ses Environs Reproduits par le Daguerrotype, Sous la Direction de M. Ch. Philipon (Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, 1840) |
| 13 | Lorenzo Suscipj (daguerreotypist) and Johann Jakob Falkeisen (artist, Swiss, 1804-1883): Vues d'Italie d'après la daguerreotype (Ferdinando Artaria et Fils, 1840-1841) |
| 14 | Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844) |
| 15 | Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842) |
| 16 | T. Bettinger: Vues d'Algérie prises au dauguerréotype (1847) |
| 17 | Bruges, ses Monuments et ses Tableaux, edited by Daveluy (Bruges, Daveluy, 1855) |
| 18 | Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin: Vues de Paris (1845) |
| 19 | Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d'Afrique (1856) |
| Cameras, equipment and plates |
| 20 | Daguerreotype cameras |
| 21 | Daguerreotype equipment |
| 22 | Daguerreotype apparatus (1843) |
| 23 | Daguerreotype apparatus (1853) |
| Plates |
| 24 | Daguerreotype plates |
| 25 | Daguerreotype plate sizes |
| 26 | Silver hallmarks on daguerreotype plates |
| Mats |
| 27 | Daguerreotype mats |
| Packaging and labels |
| 28 | Packaging for daguerreotypes |
| 29 | Labels for Daguerreotypists |
| The process of having a portrait taken |
| 30 | Portrait factory on Broadway, New York |
| Exposure times |
| 31 | Daguerreotype exposure times |
| Costs |
| 32 | Costs charged for Daguerreotypes |
| Painted backgrounds and daguerreotypists |
| 33 | Studio painted backgrounds for daguerreotypes |
| 34 | Antoine Claudet: Backgrounds for daguerreotypes |
| Themes |
| 35 | Daguerreotypes: Portraits |
| 36 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic |
| 37 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians |
| 38 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Chinese |
| 39 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Native Americans |
| 40 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Spanish |
| 41 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Norwegian |
| 42 | Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles |
| 43 | Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles of women |
| 44 | Daguerreotypes: Celebrities |
| 45 | Daguerreotypes: Actors |
| 46 | Shakespearean characters from "Illustrated Tallis's Shakespeare" (1860) |
| 47 | Jenny Lind, Opera singer (1820-1887) |
| 48 | Daguerreotypes: Politicians |
| 49 | Daguerreotypes: Military |
| 50 | Daguerreotypes: Post-mortem portraits |
| 51 | Daguerreotypes: Charitable causes |
| 52 | Daguerreotypes: Events |
| 53 | Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) |
| 54 | Daguerreotypes: Art |
| 55 | Daguerreotypes: Exteriors |
| 56 | Daguerreotypes: Landscapes |
| 57 | Daguerreotypes: Nature |
| 58 | Daguerreotypes: Panoramas |
| 59 | Daguerreotypes: Scientific |
| 60 | Daguerreotypes: Still life |
| 61 | Daguerreotypes: Multiple images |
| 62 | Daguerreotypes: Erotica and nudes |
| Stereo daguerreotypes |
| 63 | Stereo daguerreotypes |
| Coloring daguerreotypes |
| 64 | Painted daguerreotypes |
| 65 | Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses |
| 66 | Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates |
| 67 | Patent: Wm. A. Pratt, Improvement in Colouring Daguerreotype-Pictures (1846) |
| Framing |
| 68 | Daguerreotype frames |
| 69 | Daguerreotypes with painted glass passe-partouts |
| Photo-jewelry |
| 70 | Daguerreotype photo-jewelry |
| Printing |
| 71 | Printing from daguerreotype plates (Etching and engraving) |
| Encounters with artists |
| 72 | The encounters between the London Daguerreotypist John Jabez Mayall and the artist John Turner (1847-1849) |
| Photographers |
| 73 | Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Daguerreotype plates |
| 74 | Joseph Saxton: Philadelphia Central High School for Boys and Pennsylvania State Arsenal |
| 75 | Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann: Portraits |
| 76 | Alexander Doussin Dubreuil: Ireland: The Repeal Martyrs (1842-1845) |
| 77 | Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 78 | Hermann Carl Eduard Biewend: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 79 | Carl Ferdinand Stelzner: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 80 | Lorenzo G. Chase: Anthropological studies |
| 81 | Robert Cornelius: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 82 | Henry Fitz Jr.: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 83 | Marcus Aurelius Root: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 84 | Mathew B. Brady: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 85 | Charles DeForest Fredricks: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 86 | W. & F. Langenheim: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 87 | Jeremiah Gurney: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 88 | Samuel Broadbent: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 89 | Southworth and Hawes: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 90 | Rufus P. Anson: Daguerreotype portraits |
| 91 | Thomas Easterly: Daguerreotypes |
| 92 | Alexander John Ellis: Venice (1841) |
| 93 | Jules Itier: China |
| 94 | Samuel A. Bemis: The White Mountains of New Hampshire |
| 95 | Fontayne & Porter: The Cincinnati Panorama (1848) |
| 96 | George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) |
| 97 | Trutpert Schneider & Sons: Storage box for ten stereo daguerreotypes of palace interiors [Possibly Bavaria or Russia] (ca 1860) |
| Poetry |
| 98 | Photographic Phenomena, or the new school of portrait painting (1842) |
| Marketing |
| 99 | Marketing: Business cards of Daguerreotypists |
| 100 | Advertising for Daguerreotypists |
| 101 | Meade daguerreotype case a portrait of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre |
| 102 | Marketing: Cased photographs |
| Copying daguerreotypes |
| 103 | Copying photographs and copyists: Queen Victoria Presiding at the Reopening of the Reconstructed Crystal Palace at Sydenham (Daguerreotype - Albumen print) |
| 104 | Copying photographs and copyists: Portraits of Anne L. Gilles (Daguerreotype - Cabinet card) |
| 105 | Copying photographs and copyists: Portraits of an old woman (Daguerreotype - Tintype) |
