Opening it by pulling two tiny hooks through eyelets, like clasps on a locket, one sees a soft red velvet pad decorated with a floral design and on the other side an elaborate gold frame that holds a daguerrotype which is an early form of photography. ❋ Dave Hingsburger (2006)
The Haunted Doll's House I seem to recall is one of those, there's another tale with a daguerrotype which is basically the same story. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Steampunk is popular simply because brass ray-guns, airships, Analytical Engines, and bitchin 'stovepipe toppers with built-in daguerrotype cameras are just flat-out cool. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Occasionally it would flare up because you had the sense that, somewhere, your child might be posing for an ill-advised daguerrotype, but you could generally arrange for the pony delivering this to fall into a peat bog and die before any damage could be done. ❋ Unknown (2011)
NPR reports that a couple of collectors of old photos recently discovered that a daguerrotype they've owned since the 1960s is the only known photograph of Phineas Gage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Also at Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, I thought I'd seen most of the good Inauguration photos but this pigment print made from a daguerrotype by master dag maker Jerry Spagnoli was a nice mix of old and new. ❋ The Year In Pictures (2009)
Just inside the door, under a daguerrotype of Clayton Daly, was a crescent-shaped walnut counter. ❋ Richard Paul Evans (2009)
Another decade and the daguerrotype would be largely supplanted by the albumen print, which made images on paper instead of metal. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I hadn't felt like lugging the tripod that morning, and the rider probably wouldn't have held still for the 15 or 20 minutes it would have taken me to make a proper daguerrotype anyway. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)
The Diorama, not incidentally, was invented by Louis Daguerre, later of the daguerrotype, and has figured in "The Simpsons," with Springfield Elementary holding a Diorama competition called Diorama-Rama. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The captain in the daguerrotype had his cheeks painted red. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Many of them are displayed in vintage daguerrotype frames. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Muldoon saw a portrait daguerrotype that had been pasted in back, of a stern, light-eyed woman, who was probably Herkimer's rich wife. ❋ DeAndrea, William L. (1980)
Holland paid the entire bill, which was so large that I asked the daguerrotype man if he would sell out. ❋ George H. Devol (N/A)
It is now older than the daguerrotype man's; and when I hand in my checks, I will leave the notes with my dear old mother-in-law for collection. ❋ George H. Devol (N/A)
I am requested for the gratification of Joe's mother that you will be pleased on his arrival and before he changes his sex, to have his daguerrotype taken for her use. ❋ Various (N/A)
