Daguerreotypes (photographs)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Photographs made by the process called daguerreotype, which produces a direct positive image on a silver-coated copper plate. They are often mounted in special cases lined with red velvet or leather. They are named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicéphore Niépce in the 1830s.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
19th century daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits, approximately 1840-1870
File — Box 3
Identifier: C-185
Scope and Contents
Includes 19th century daguerreotype and ambrotype photographic portraits in frames and/or cases. Most photographs are portraits of single individuals, but some are family portraits. Most cases in the collection are made of wood covered with leather or embossed paper, but one is a thermal plastic/thermoplastic/Gutta Percha union case featuring a horse, three people, and a dog, in a scene that the dealer names "Roger de Coverly and the Gypsies Fortune." Roger de Coverly is the name...
Dates:
approximately 1840-1870
Miscellaneous photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: C-185
Scope and Contents
Collection of historic photographs, stereograph cards, cabinet photographs, and cartes-de-visites collected by Middlebury Special Collections. The collection includes images taken from 1870 onward. Subjects include the Middle East, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Palestine, Egypt, India, pornography, and various individuals seated for portraits. Portraits in the collection incude Middle Eastern studio portraits as well as approximately 45 black and white studio portraits taken in New England...
Dates:
circa 1880-
