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Showing posts with label 1849. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1849. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Daguerreotype Portrait of Adolphina Juliana Lisman-Meyer Said To Possibly Be Taken in Paramaribo, Suriname (1849)
Daguerreotype portrait of Adolphina Juliana Lisman-Meyer said to possibly be taken in Paramaribo, Suriname, c. 1849.
Source: Rijksmuseum.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Daguerreotype Portrait of Elisa and John McAllister (1849)
Daguerreotype portrait of Elisa (left) and John McAllister, July 23, 1849. By the Langenheim brothers.
Source.
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Daguerreotype Portrait of President Zachary Taylor Taken at the White House in Washington, D.C. (1849)
Daguerreotype portrait of President Zachary Taylor taken at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 1849. By Mathew Brady.
Source.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Daguerreotype Portrait of Women of the Ladies Benevolent Sewing Society Posing Around a Table With a Quilt on it in Strongsville, Ohio (1849)
Daguerreotype portrait of women of the Ladies Benevolent Sewing Society posing around a table with a quilt on it in Strongsville, Ohio, March 29, 1849.
Source.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Calotype View of Workers Standing on a Cast Iron Lighthouse Assembled Temporarily at the Foundry Where it Was Created in Philadelphia Before Its Shipment For Installation on Carysfort Reef in Florida (1849)
Calotype view of workers standing on a cast iron lighthouse assembled temporarily at the foundry where it was created in Philadelphia before its shipment for installation on Carysfort Reef in Florida, August 2, 1849. By the Langenheim brothers.
Source.
Wikipedia entry.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Daguerreotype Portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the Bedside of a Dead or Dying Patient (1849)
Daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the bedside of a dead or dying patient, 1849. He later became a major in the Union Army during the Civil War where he became known as the "Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine." The hospital named Camp Letterman set up after the Battle of Gettysburg was named after him. Image from the American Experience documentary called Death and the Civil War.
Caption source.
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