Walt Whitman
1853-1854
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
NYPL - New York Public Library
Rare Book Division, Oscar Lion Collection, MSS Unit ID: 1767, UUID: 715ff970-c5d9-012f-f609-58d385a7bc34
LL/59690
1 of 52
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862)
1856
Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
NPG.72.119
LL/76467
2 of 52
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)
1856
Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
NPG.72.119
LL/76470
3 of 52
Samuel Houston
1851
Daguerreotype, full plate
8 x 5 3/16 ins (20.3 x 13.2 cm) (image)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
Museum purchase funded by Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. in honor of the firm's 75th anniversary. Accession number: 92.444
LL/64442
4 of 52
Senator Sam Houston
1857-1858 (uncertain)
Tintype, 1/6 plate
Cowan's Auctions, Inc
Current whereabouts unknown.
LL/64694 [Further details available]
5 of 52
Portrait of Sam Houston (1793-1863)
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
George Eastman Museum
LL/118591
6 of 52
Portrait of Sam Houston (1793-1863)
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
George Eastman Museum
LL/118590
7 of 52
[Sam Houston, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, clean shaven]
1848-1850
Daguerrotype, b&w film copy neg.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004663991, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-110029 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) LC-USZ62-27732 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) LC-USZ62-9798 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, before restoration)
LL/118596 [Further details available]
8 of 52
[Sam Houston, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, clean shaven]
1844-1860
Daguerrotype, b&w film copy neg.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004663992, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-110113 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) LC-USZ62-9051 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)
LL/118597 [Further details available]
9 of 52
Jenny Lind
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9928
10 of 52
Jenny Lind (1820-1887)
1848
Daguerreotype
11.5 x 9.1 cm (image)
Royal Photograph Collection
The Royal Collection ® 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 2932511
LL/81961
11 of 52
Jenny Lind
1850-1852
Daguerreotype
Harvard Houghton Library
TC-68, Harvard Theatre Collection
LL/74401 [Further details available]
12 of 52
Jenny Lind & Marietta Alboni, Countess Pepoli (née Maria Anna Marzia)
1848
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-painted
National Portrait Gallery - NPG
Purchased, 2002, Primary Collection, NPG P956
LL/82003
13 of 52
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1843-1845 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
4 1/4 × 3 1/4 ins (plate)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., 2005.27.13. © Nelson Gallery Foundation.
LL/67395
14 of 52
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1850s
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937, Accession Number: 37.14.40
LL/83513 [Further details available]
15 of 52
Dolley Madison
1848
Daguerreotype
Greensboro History Museum
Id: 1963.87.10
LL/85068
16 of 52
Dolley Madison and her niece Anna Payne Causten
1848
Daguerreotype
Greensboro History Museum
Id: 1963.87.9
LL/85069 [Further details available]
17 of 52
[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right].
1845 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
DAG no. 1278 / cph 3g12153
LL/6519
18 of 52
Henry Clay
1848 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Swann Galleries - New York
Sale 2208 Lot 33
LL/35581 [Further details available]
19 of 52
Henry Clay
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
14.0 x 10.8 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937, Accession Number: 37.14.15
LL/64386 [Further details available]
20 of 52
John Quincy Adams
1843
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
LL/79001
21 of 52
John Quincy Adams
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
12.0 x 9.0 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937, Accession Number: 37.14.34
LL/64384 [Further details available]
22 of 52
George Lippard
1840s (late) - 1854
Daguerreotype
10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2000.280
LL/79357 [Further details available]
23 of 52
Abraham Lincoln
1864-1865
Daguerreotype
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
DAG no. 1224 / cph 3g02439
LL/6513
24 of 52
James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas
1850-1855
Daguerreotype
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.386
LL/40395
25 of 52
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1841-1842
Daguerreotype
Harvard Houghton Library
Manuscript Department
LL/41598
26 of 52
Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
1840s
Daguerreotype
Museum of the History of Science
Inventory No: 30015, Clay Collection
LL/39604
27 of 52
Louis Kossuth
1845-1861
Daguerreotype
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Edward Southworth Hawes in memory of his father Josiah Johnson Hawes, Accession no: 43.1443
LL/96618
28 of 52
Portrait of Lajos Kossuth
1852
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9793
29 of 52
Louis Kossuth and Ferencz Pulszky
1852
Daguerreotype, whole plate
21.5 X 16.5 cm
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1974.0193.0263A
LL/74197
30 of 52
Louis Kossuth and Ferencz Pulszky
1852
Daguerreotype, whole plate
23.5 x 17.2 cm
George Eastman Museum
Museum accession, 1974.0193.0263B
LL/74198
31 of 52
Sir John Franklin
[British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848]
1845
Daguerreotype
6.2 x 7.6 cm
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Accession no.: N: 589/1
LL/39195 [Further details available]
32 of 52
Frederick Douglass
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Howard University, Library
Frederick Douglass Collection
LL/64417
33 of 52
Frederick Douglass
1847-1852
Daguerreotype
Art Institute of Chicago
Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment, Reference Number: 1996.433
LL/114466 [Further details available]
34 of 52
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
n.d.
Daguerreotype, whole plate
Onondaga Historical Association
LL/87309
35 of 52
John Brown
1847 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
LL/33087 [Further details available]
36 of 52
John Brown
1846-1847 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. 2008.6.4.
LL/79108
37 of 52
Portrait de Chopin
1849
Daguerreotype
Musée de la musique
LL/42583 [Further details available]
38 of 52
Reproduction d'un portrait de Chopin par Georges Sand
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Musée d'Orsay
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000320239 ; PHO_1983_165_281;INV_696
LL/42652
39 of 52
William Makepeace Thackeray
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Boston Public Library, Print Department
File name: 07_05_000007, Cab no.: Cab.G.3.113
LL/45528 [Further details available]
40 of 52
Edgar Allan Poe
1849, late May - early June
Daguerreotype
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: 84.XT.957
LL/95968 [Further details available]
41 of 52
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
1848
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
American Antiquarian Society
Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Gift of Mrs. Charles T. Tatman, 1947 (scan #003580-0108)
LL/32373 [Further details available]
42 of 52
Daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe
1849, September
Daguerreotype
Columbia University Libraries
https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog/ldpd:113671
LL/95967
43 of 52
Daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe
1849, September
Daguerreotype
Columbia University Libraries
https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog/ldpd:113671
LL/95966
44 of 52
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1844
Daguerreotype
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
LL/44856 [Further details available]
45 of 52
Frederick Douglass
1847 (ca, taken) 1850 (ca, after, copy)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
LL/72899
46 of 52
Frederick Douglass
1847 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
LL/33086
47 of 52
Nikolai Gogol
1845
Daguerreotype, detail
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
LL/42410 [Further details available]
48 of 52
The Earl and Countess of Elgin, Lady Alice Lambton (left) and Lord Mark Kerr (standing)
1848
Daguerreotype
National Archives of Canada
C-088507
LL/43896
49 of 52
The Hawaiian royal family, Kamehameha
1853 (ca)
Daguerreotype, whole plate
16.5 x 21.5 x 1.1 cm
Bishop Museum
Courtesy of Bishop Museum, Honolulu, gift of Col. C.P. Laukea through A.F. Judd
LL/29684 [Further details available]
50 of 52
Hawaiian Princes, Alexander Liholiho & Lot Kamahameeaha and G. Parmele Judd
1850, 24 May
Daguerreotype
National Science and Media Museum
LL/50407
51 of 52
Portrait of Alexandre Dumas
1851 (ca)
Daguerreotype, colored and gilded, stereoscopic
0.67 x 0.125 m
Musée d'Orsay
© R.M.N., Acquired with the collaboration of the Commission nationale de la photographie
LL/7951
52 of 52
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