Mercury fuming box for daguerreotypes used by Samuel F. B. Morse
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1839-1840
name: label: maker
content: Prosch, George W.
notes: label: Description
content: The Photographic History Collection holds the photography equipment originally made for Samuel Morse by George W. Prosch (Morse's instrument maker) following Morse's return from visiting with inventor Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre in 1839. This Mercury fuming box for developing daguerreotypes is certainly among the earliest photographic equipment used in America, dating 1839-1840. Working closely with Dr. J.W. Draper in New York, Morse was instrumental in promoting photography in America, furthering experimentation, and producing early examples of the daguerreotypes.
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.000005
label: accession number
content: 20341
label: catalog number
content: 5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fuming box, daguerreotype
label: Other Terms
content: developing box, daguerreotype; fuming box, daguerreotype; Still
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: 20 in x 11 in x 9 in; 50.8 cm x 27.94 cm x 22.86 cm