#daguerrotype

[blondebrainpowered]

Union soldier with his family during the American Civil War, ca. 1863-65.

Daguerrotype

Unknown Photographer

[conservethis]

Here's some photography related book covers I found on the Internet Archive this week!

[sacredwhores]

Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Daguerrotype (2016)

[coralbonesandpearlsforeyes]

In 1875, a student of photography went for a night walk with his camera along the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. He was never seen or heard from again. The next morning, his camera was found, with this single frame captured on it. No one knows who the young man in the picture is, but he was likely the last to see the photographer alive...

(Armand cosplay by @bittersuites)

[blasteffect]

A daguerrotype of the full moon taken in 1840.

One of the first astronomical photographs ever taken, by Dr J.W. Draper of New York.

Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection

[maudeboggins]

Lola Montez, 1851

[onceuponatown]

Re-enactment of the first public demonstration of general anesthesia by William T. G. Morton on October 16, 1846 in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Surgeons John Collins Warren and Henry Jacob Bigelow are included in this daguerrotype by Southworth & Hawes.

[vanishedflower]