Morse Daguerreotype Camera
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1839-1840
name: label: user
content: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
label: user
content: Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande
label: maker
content: Prosch, George W.
notes: label: Description
content: Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), an artist and inventor of the telegraph, was in Paris in 1839 sharing the scientific and celebrity stage with Daguerre. The two inventors shared notes on their inventions and Morse returned to the US with a camera, perhaps the first camera in the United States. Morse, whose photographic endeavors would be limited, inspired and taught a number of men who would become important photographers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.000004
label: accession number
content: 20341
label: catalog number
content: 4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: camera, daguerreotype
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 10 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 26.67 cm x 26.67 cm