Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 3/10/2009
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...
Daguerreotype of Unitarian Congregational Church, New York City. On the Washington Square campus ...
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