daguerreotypes
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Photographs: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-004
Scope and Contents
Cased images represent the first forms of photographs taken at Oberlin, with the earliest dating from soon after the invention of photography in 1839, and the majority from the 1850s. In the United States, daguerreotypes were the first common expressions of photography. Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes exist only as single unique images that are not generated from negatives. These images typically appear in period cases, which protected the cover glass of daguerreotypes and...
Dates:
ca. 1840-ca. 1860; Other: Majority of material found in 1850s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives