Daguerreotype camera
date: label: Date made
content: circa 1840-1860
label: Date made
content: 1850
notes: label: Description
content: This simple wooden box daguerreotype camera is an example of the earliest type of cameras used in America from the introduction of photography in 1840 to the waning popularity of the process in 1860. Like most of the first cameras built its lens is European, made by Voigtlander of Vienna, Austria. The camera accessories include plate holders and a processing outfit with for developing individual daguerreotype plates.
label: Location
content: Currently on loan
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: S. R. Koehler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.000157.1
label: accession number
content: 022954
label: catalog number
content: 0157.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Camera, Daguerreotype
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 11 3/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 13.6525 cm x 28.8925 cm