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Daguerreotypes
 Websites presented in alphabetical order America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839 - 1864 
 A searchable and browsable collection of hundreds of photographs taken between 1839 and 1864. The majority are portraits taken by the Mathew Brady studio. Includes photographic views of buildings and monuments in the Washington-Baltimore area, street scenes in Philadelphia, and "studio portraits by black photographers James P. Ball and Francis Grice." Includes background about the medium, a glossary, timeline, and a bibliography. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Jul 7, 2004 The Daguerreian Society
This site includes "a brief history of the daguerreotype, an extensive daguerreian bibliography, an illustrated description of the process, a look into a daguerreian materials manufactory, many 19th and early 20th century texts, and much more." Also features image galleries, a FAQ, and related links. http://www.daguerre.org/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Jun 20, 2004 Guide to the Cased Photographs and Related Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collections, Bulk ca. 1845-ca. 1870
"Approximately 440 cased photographs and related images from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Included are daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes dating from the 1840s through 1860s. Also present are some painted miniature portraits as well as other photographic processes such as opalotypes, pannotypes, and crystoleum prints." Features portraits, mining scenes, California gold rush towns, and views of San Francisco and Sacramento. Also contains a glossary of photographic terms, and bibliography. From the California Digital Library. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf7p3006fv&query=cased&query-join=and&brand=oac Topics: California: History, Geology, Photograph Collections, Photography Last updated Sep 5, 2006 Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery: A Virtual Tour
This site is a virtual tour of all of Matthew Brady's photographs in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, taken throughout the 1800s. Also provides his Carte de Visite Album ; the Making of a Photograph ; a Brady biography; a Technical Glossary , with explanations of a daguerreotype, ambrotype, and other aspects of photography; and an Index of Sitters , each with a short biography. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/gallery.html Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Feb 20, 2003 Multimedia Archives [University of Utah]
Photographs and audio-visual materials from the Special Collections Department of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Archives contain over 1300 photograph collections representing "almost all historic formats ... as well as more modern color and black and white prints, slides, and negatives." Archives also feature over 900 audio-visual collections including "audio cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, vinyl recording discs, VHS, 8mm, Super-8, 16mm, and 35mm film and more." http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=63cb8808fe258110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 12, 2008 Photo-crafting: Photography as Decorative Sculpture
Exhibition of early photographs (including daguerreotypes and tintypes) that "demonstrate how craftsmen, itinerant artists, and individuals found ways to make photography more tangible and increased its infusion into daily life and culture." Features photographs reproduced on tea cups and plates, photographic jewelry, framed photos, and other decorative objects. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/photo-crafting/ Topics: Art, Photography Last updated Jun 23, 2009 Tacoma Public Library's Photography Archive
This Web site features a collection of photographs that document "the social, industrial, commercial, and agricultural growth and development of Washington [state] and the Pacific Northwest." The collection includes "daguerreotypes, glass lantern slides, early and modern prints, panoramic photographs, ambrotypes and tintypes, glass and film negatives, and more." Searchable, or view images using the random-display feature. http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/images/ Topics: Agriculture, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 14, 2004 |
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