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[Portrait of Mamie D. Lee] - Public domain portrait photograph

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[Portrait of Mamie D. Lee] - Public domain portrait photograph

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Summary

Case: Urn surrounded by scrolls.
Stamped on brass mat: Germon 702 Chest. St. Phila.

Purchase; 2008; (DLC/PP-2008:080).
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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Date

01/01/1860
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Contributors

Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), photographer
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.

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