The 1845 daguerreotype (photographer unknown) is a little expensive piece of Baltimore history. Lot No. 115 won’t have the cachet of, say, Jackie O’s diamond flower brooch, but the 19th ...

He took the photographs while traveling between Brattleboro and Burlington, probably in either 1845 or 1847. The surviving daguerreotypes include an image of the Old Mill building at the ...

Daguerreotype of James Fitzjames, taken by Richard Beard in May 1845. Photo courtesy of Sotheby’s. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

The first photographs of First Nations people were taken with daguerreotype technology. And, the earliest colonial exhibitions of photography, in Adelaide, Kaurna Country in 1845 and Sydney ...

1845. The photo, shown above, was made by French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault. They used a daguerreotype, what was really the first kind of photography; a metal plate was treated ...

He had filed for divorce in 1848, contending that she had "willfully, maliciously, and without due cause, deserted him on September 11, 1845." Kemble, who had in fact been driven away by Butler ...

Capt Francis Crozier and 13 other senior officers were photographed in May of 1845. The complete set ... at least two sets of 14 daguerreotypes, or early photographs, were taken on board HMS ...

He had filed for divorce in 1848, contending that she had "willfully, maliciously, and without due cause, deserted him on September 11, 1845." Kemble, who had in fact been driven away by Butler ...

In 1839, Samuel Morse was in Paris to obtain a patent for the electro-magnetic telegraph he had developed in America, when he caught wind of another scientific wonder of the age: the daguerreotype.