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[Ann Minerva "Nannie" Rodgers Macomb, three-quarter length portrait, facing right, seated in chair, with arms crossed]

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[Ann Minerva "Nannie" Rodgers Macomb, three-quarter length portrait, facing right, seated in chair, with arms crossed]

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Hallmark: 40 [image obscured].
Case: central bouquet of mixed flowers.
Accompanying label: Mrs. John N. Macomb (Ann Rodgers) 1826-1916.
Embossed on inside of case: J. H. Whitehurst Galleries, New-York, Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg, and Lynchburg.
Inscription in case behind daguerreotype: Mrs. A. M. Macomb nee Rodgers, taken Feb. 1854, Washington.
Gift; Mrs. Alexander Macomb; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:307).
Forms part of: Rodgers Family Papers, 1740-1977 (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

The daguerreotype is a photographic process invented by the Parisian inventor and entrepreneur Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) who was the first person to publicly announce a successful method of capturing images. His invention was an immediate hit, and France was soon gripped by ‘daguerreotypomania’. Daguerre released his formula and anyone was free to use it without paying a license fee – except in Britain, where he had secured a patent. Daguerreotypes required a subject to remain still for several minutes to ensure that the image would not blur.

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01/01/1854
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Whitehurst, Jesse Harrison, 1819-1875, photographer
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Library of Congress
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