Hillotype of Westkill Village, New York
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1850s-1860s
name: label: maker
content: Hill, Levi
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American History holds an extraordinary series of early color photographs: sixty-two color daguerreotype plates made by Rev. Levi L. Hill in the early 1850s in Westkill, Greene County, New York, including this image of buildings in the town. This unique collection is what remains as evidence of the "Hillotypes" produced and experiments conducted by Hill to produce daguerreotype plates with natural colors. No greater controversy has ever divided the history of photography. Approximately 60 related articles appeared in journals between 1851 and 1856, as the photography community awaited the details on how to produce a Hillotype.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, West Kill
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Hillotypes
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. John B. Garrison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.003999.01
label: accession number
content: 125759
label: catalog number
content: 3999.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
label: Object Name
content: Hillotype
label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: photographic emulsion (overall material)
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content: chemicals (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 16.51 cm