To mark the presidential election of 2024, this exhibition presents daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits of eight men–from John Quincy Adams to Chester Arthur–who held the nation’s highest office ...

George Clark, ambrotype campaign pin of Abraham Lincoln after a portrait by Mathew B. Brady (1860) (all images courtesy the National Portrait Gallery) Daguerreotypes were the original means by which ...

Unidentified artist, "Untitled (woman with hair ribbon)" (undated), sixth-plate ambrotype. Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early American Photography, Museum purchase ...

Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest photographic images in Australian gallery, library, and museum collections. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their ...

Last week I began a discussion of the oldest photographs, all of which were produced as encased images. The daguerreotype was the earliest of these: it was a positive photographic image on a copper ...

To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s ...

In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...