Occupational Daguerreotypes - 1 Occupational Daguerreotypes Page 1 of 5 Next Page Photographer unidentified. Occasionally daguerreotypes document American laborers in the mid-nineteenth century. The subjects of occupational daguerreotypes pose with the tools of their trade or goods that they have made.
Most occupational daguerreotypes depict tradesmen, such as cobblers, carpenters, and blacksmiths.