/r/Daguerreotypes
A subreddit for sharing historic daguerreotype photographs taken around the world mostly during the 1840s and 1850s. Modern daguerreotypes are also allowed. Non-daguerreotype related photography posts will be removed.
A subreddit for sharing historic daguerreotype photographs taken around the world mostly during the 1840s and 1850s. Modern daguerreotypes are also allowed.
Some background links
Video showing the process of taking a daguerreotype photograph by George Eastman House.
Second video showing the process of making daguerreotypes by Getty Museum.
Video detailing the differences between daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and collodion negatives by Civil War Trust.
"Fixed in Time." Guide to dating daguerreotype, ambrotype, and tintype case and mat styles.
Lucretia Mott portrait and description of the daguerreotype process by the National Portrait Gallery.
Video collection of daguerreotypes taken by its inventor, Louis Daguerre.
List of history-related subreddits maintained by the History Network.
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Six plate daguerreotype and daguerreotype copy of a woman by an unknown maker circa 1856
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Quarter plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1855
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Ninth plate daguerreotype of a child by Miller circa 1856
16:42 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of mother & son by an unknown maker circa 1862
20:14 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a woman by unknown maker circa 1858
18:30 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1852
03:54 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of siblings by an unknown maker circa 1855
22:44 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of sisters by an unknown maker circa 1853
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Sixth plate daguerreotype of a family by an unknown maker circa 1854
22:34 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1850
03:31 UTC
Ninth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1858
00:54 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a man by an unknown maker circa 1852
02:49 UTC
Ninth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1863
04:39 UTC
Quarter plate daguerreotype of a man by unknown maker circa 1858
02:33 UTC
Ninth plate daguerreotype of a child by and unknown maker circa 1857
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Sixth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1851
04:25 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1854
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sixth plate daguerreotype of a man by an unknown maker circa 1855
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Sixth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1853
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Sixth plate daguerreotype of a man by an unknown maker circa 1852
16:40 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a family by an unknown maker circa 1856
18:45 UTC
Ninth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1856
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Sixth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1850
00:25 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype by an unknown maker circa 1855
20:39 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of children by an unknow maker circa 1853
16:04 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype by an unknown maker circa 1855
20:30 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a child by an unknown maker circa 1853
01:32 UTC
Sixth plate daguerreotype by an unknown maker circa 1858
22:58 UTC
Ninth plate daguerreotype of man by an unknown maker circa 1857
20:45 UTC