Daguerreotypes:
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daguerreotype is a direct-image photograph on a silver-coated
copper plate. It has a distinctive mirror-like surface
and is usually housed in a special case. The Henry Ford has over 300 daguerreotypes
from the 1840s and 1850s. The images relate to inventions,
occupations, portraits of ordinary people and a few rare
landscapes. Most of the daguerreotype photographers
are unknown, but the collection contains examples by well-known
daguerreotypists including Mathew B. Brady and Southworth
& Hawes. The museum's collection also contains
eight modern daguerreotypes made in the 1930s by Charles
Tremear in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio. |
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