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Daguerreotype Preservation and Restoration

Allow me to plug the following: Dennis Waters, Fine Daguerreotypes.  The Waters family is well know in the daguerreotype community for scholarly research and restoration services.  Just take a glance at their restoration page and you’ll be amazed; I am. … Continue reading

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Show us your daguerreotype gear!

A cursory perusal of the web yields few pictures of Daguerreian apparatus modern or otherwise. I would very much enjoy seeing and sharing with my readers pictures of the apparatus that is in use around the world today. Have you … Continue reading

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The Photo Detective

Time is cruel to memory. When memories fades with the generations it is only the corporeal remnants of memory that serve to remind us of events past. Photographs are the most easily accessible documentation of family history but often the … Continue reading

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Support the Daguerreian Society

Elizabeth Isenburg has donated a handsome satchel for the benefit of the Daguerreian Society. The satchel has a logo on it that I’ve not seen before and appears to be solidly constructed from some kind of ballistic woven nylon. Go … Continue reading

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A Lesson on Identification and a Kindred Spirit

I periodically peruse the annals of Technorati for the word “daguerreotype.” Greater than half the time the results are from articles using the word as simile for some ancient person/place/thing for which the author has no stronger adjective. Occasionally, however, … Continue reading

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