Daguerreotypes!

[onceuponatown]

New York. Unidentified Women, Close Up Portraits from Daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady, circa 1850.

[daguerreotype-era]

sixth plate daguerreotype

[theamericanparlor]

American Daguerreotype, features a  young gentleman wearing a large tie. 1/6 plate.

[daguerreotype-era]

sixth plate daguerreotype

[petiteclover]

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”

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Daguerreotype of a young girl with short hair c. 1840’s - 1850’s

[visionsofour-past]

• Portrait of Martha Emma Roper.

Place of origin: London

Date: 1851

Photographer: Kilburn, William Edward

Medium: Daguerreotype, coloured

[visionsofour-past]

• Portrait of 2 Unidentified Women.

Date: ca. 1850

Medium: Daguerreotype (1/6 plate), hand-colored with oval brass mat.

[met-photos]

[Augusta Hawes at Four Years Old] by Southworth and Hawes, The Met’s Photography Department

Medium: Daguerreotype

Gift of Isaac Lagnado, in honor of Director Thomas P. Campbell, 2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301969

[mypinholepinups]

[chubachus]

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified African American woman taken by Jeremiah Gurney in his studio located on Broadway in New York City, c. 1850′s.

Source: Sotheby’s.

[radianttruths]

ca. 1850 daguerrotype via daguerreotypeimages.tumblr.com

[rickinmar]

Quaker gentleman. New Bedford. about 1855.

[visionsofour-past]

• Miss Hodges of Salem. Date: 1845–61 Photographer: Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–62) Medium: Daguerreotype.

[chubachus]

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man by James P. Weston, c. 1848.

Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[terrence-herschel-gay]

“The Age of Gold and Daguerreotypes” by SARAH MOROZ via NYT / Eethg. Corps. Inc. Multimedia/Photos http://nyti.ms/2Bm6CiV January 22, 2018 at 07:00PM The New York Times Multimedia/Photos

[met-photos]

Margaret Fuller (Marchioness Ossoli) by Albert Sands Southworth, The Met’s Photography Department

Medium: Daguerreotype

Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268307

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[Rev. Mr. Frederick T. Gray and Deacons of Old Bullfinch Street Church] by John Adams Whipple, The Met’s Photography Department

Medium: Daguerreotype

Gift of Isaac Lagnado, in honor of Elliott Cohen, 2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301973