Collection Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Robert Cornelius, self-portrait; believed to be the earliest extant American portrait photo] 1 photograph : approximate quarter plate daguerreotype ; mount 37.6 x 29.1 cm, visible plate 9 x 6.9 cm. | Daguerre announced his invention of a photographic method to the French Academy of Sciences in August 1839. That October, a young Philadelphian, Robert Cornelius, working out of doors to take advantage of the light, made this head-and-shoulders self-portrait using a box fitted with a...- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1839
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CollectionDaguerreotypes There are approximately 700 daguerreotypes in the Prints & Photographs Division. The majority of the images are portraits, but the collection does include a few early architectural views, outdoor scenes, and copies of works of art.- Contributor: Washington, Augustus - Cornelius, Robert - Brady, Mathew B. - Anson, Rufus
- Date: 1839
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Photo, Print, Drawing[John McAllister, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] 1 photograph : approximate sixth plate daguerreotype.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Emlen Cresson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] 1 photograph : approximate sixth plate daguerreotype.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, Drawing[William Robertson Grant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] 1 photograph : approximate sixth plate daguerreotype.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Isaiah Lukens, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, Drawing[View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia] 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, Drawing[James Curtis Booth, half-length portrait, facing left, with arm resting on table] 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1841
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Photo, Print, Drawing[John Henry Frederick Sachse, half-length portrait, facing front, seated] 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1841
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Professor Henry Hope Reed, half-length portrait, facing slightly left] 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; plate 84 x 70 mm (sixth plate format) | Photograph shows portrait of educator who taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1854.- Contributor: Cornelius, Robert
- Date: 1841