CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. P12521 This collection contains one 1/4 plate ambrotype depicting Chief Okemos [Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)], photographed by Henry H. Smith of ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln sat for a photograph after politicking in western Illinois and presented one of the copies to ...
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes Kaila Philo Photography is an art that often gets taken ...
The National Portrait Gallery traces early images of American leaders, from John Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, William Judkins Thomson, half-plate ambrotype, 1858 Alice George | ...
The ambrotype, a photographic process invented in the 1850s, took its name from the Greek for “immortal” or “imperishable.” An underdeveloped positive on coated glass, the ambrotype image assumed full ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This quarter-plate ambrotype made by an unknown photographer, shows the balloon ascension by John Steiner at Erie, Pennsylvania, on June 18, 1857.
COLUMBIA, Tenn. (WTVF) — A detectorist found a coin-sized antique photograph of a mysterious woman on a property in Columbia that dates back to 1835. Angie and Carl Jones own the Looney Jones House on ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — During his ...
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