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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Daguerreotype With Multiple Exposures of the Moon Taken With a Telescope Probably by French Photographer Antoine-François-Jean Claudet (1840's/1850's)
Daguerreotype with at least 18 exposures of the moon taken with a telescope probably by French photographer Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, c. 1846-1852. British photographer John Jabez Edwin Mayall is also credited with taking the daguerreotype.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Daguerreotype Self-Portrait of a Man Believed to be John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1844)
Daguerreotype self-portrait of a man believed to be John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1844.
Source: Library of Congress.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Portrait of Five Members of the Virginia Military Institute Gymnasium Club From the 1885 Edition of VMI’s Yearbook Named The Bomb
Source: Virginia Military Institute.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Stereoview Portrait of a Group Posing on a Bridge Or Pier in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (1860)
Stereoview portrait of a group posing on a bridge or pier in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 1860. By photography firm Osborn and Durbec.
Source: Library of Congress.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Portrait of People Posing in the H. Moschke Ltd. Store in Pietersburg, South Africa (1900's)
Portrait of people posing in the H. Moschke Ltd. store in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), South Africa, c. 1900-1910. Published by the Detroit Publishing Company.
Source: Library of Congress.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Portrait of a Woman Spinning Wool Somewhere in Algeria (1800's)
Portrait of a woman spinning wool somewhere in Algeria, c. 1870-1900. Published by French photography firm Neurdein Brothers.
Source: Library of Congress.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Carte De Visite Portrait of Jane Kettle Taken By Photographer J.W. Gilmor of Colchester, England (1864)
Carte de visite portrait of Jane Kettle taken by photographer J.W. Gilmor of Colchester, England, July 1864.
Source: Rijksmuseum.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Portrait of Dr. Charles Robinson of Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1857)
Portrait of Dr. Charles Robinson of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1857. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Daguerreotype View of a Crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City Taken By An Unidentified Italian Photographer in Rome, The Papal States (1845)
Daguerreotype view of a crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City taken by an unidentified Italian photographer in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1845. One of the earliest photographs of Vatican City.
Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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