The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The dagu

Described by his contemporaries as Daguerre's most dedicated follower, Thomas M. Easterly did most of his work in the relative obscurity of St. Louis. This lavi

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention th

Reproduction of the original.