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Unidentified man and woman. F. Grice, ca. 1855.
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Daguerreotypes: A Selected Bibliography
Barger, M. Susan, and William B. White. The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
The Daguerreian Annual: Official Yearbook of the Daguerreian Society. Eureka, CA: The Daguerreian Society, 1990-
Fern, Alan, and Milton Kaplan. "John Plumbe, Jr., and the First Architectural Photographs of the Nation's Capitol." The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 31 (January 1979): 3-20.
Field, Richard S. American Daguerreotypes from the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1989.
Foresta, Merry A., and John Wood. Secrets of the Dark Chamber: the Art of the American Daguerreotype. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Kilgo, Dolores. Likeness and Landscape: Thomas Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994.
Krainik, Clifford, and Michele Krainik. Union Cases: A Collector's Guide to the Art of America's First Plastics. Grantsburg, WI: Centennial Photo Service, 1988.
Newhall, Beaumont. The Daguerreotype in America. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1961.
Pfister, Harold Francis. Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
Rinhart, Floyd, and Marion Rinhart. American Miniature Case Art. South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes Company, 1969.
Rinhart, Floyd, and Marion Rinhart. American Daguerreian Art. New York: C.N. Potter, 1967.
Rudisill, Richard. Mirror Image: the Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971.
Wood, John, ed. America and the Daguerreotype. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991.
Wood, John, ed. The Daguerreotype: A Sesquicentennial Celebration. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989.
Wood, John. The Scenic Daguerreotype: Romanticism and Early Photography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.