[James Duncan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
Summary
Colonel, U.S. Army.
Photographer unidentified.
Identification based on DAG no. 328.
Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1993; (DLC/PP-1993:136).
Forms part of: Henry Jackson Hunt Papers, 1841-1978 (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.
- 769 Duncan Images - LOC's Public Domain Archive - GetArchive
- 81494 Portrait photographs Images - LOC's Public Domain Archive
- James Duncan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left
- portrait photographs - LOC's Public Domain Archive - GetArchive
- 1287 Daguerreotypes Images - LOC's Public Domain Archive
- old pictures - PICRYL - Collections - GetArchive
- 11446 Old pictures Images: PICRYL - Collections
- America first look into the camera daguerreotype portraits and views ...
- Drachengesichtsseite
- 2 Duncan james, James Images: PICRYL - Public Domain Media ...