The quarter-frame dageurreotype of Dolley Madison taken by John Plumbe. The National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has purchased a daguerreotype of Dolley Madison for $456,000 — the …
The quarter-frame dageurreotype of Dolley Madison taken by John Plumbe. A daguerreotype of the first First Lady of the United States and the earliest-known photograph of a First Lady is …
Introduced at the beginning of the 20th century, autochromes were the very first form of color photography until it was comprehensively replaced by film in the mid-1900s. In 2024, just …
A 19th-century daguerreotype from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada which shows a portrait of a woman (left) and the image retrieved using the team’s synchrotron technique (right). …
For nearly as long as there have been cameras, there have been photos of pets, some of which date back to the early 1800s. Animals are the perfect companion, friend, …
A post-mortem image of a mother holding her deceased daughter, circa 1904. Posing with her daughter who leans on her shoulder, a Victorian mother stares mournfully into the camera. But …