visibility Similar

code Related

[James Duncan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

description

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.

label_outline

Tags

duncan james daguerreotypes portrait photographs james duncan james duncan portrait vintage images 1840 military us army united states army head and shoulders portrait facing left 19th century america first look into the camera daguerreotype portraits and views 1839 1864 photo ultra high resolution high resolution old pictures library of congress facing left portrait
date_range

Date

01/01/1840
collections

in collections

Daguerreotype Portraits

Victorian era Still Portraits
create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

label_outline Explore James Duncan, Duncan, 1840

Topics

duncan james daguerreotypes portrait photographs james duncan james duncan portrait vintage images 1840 military us army united states army head and shoulders portrait facing left 19th century america first look into the camera daguerreotype portraits and views 1839 1864 photo ultra high resolution high resolution old pictures library of congress facing left portrait