Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
A Daguerreian photographic studio.

Bottle label
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
This original label for a bottle of "Rotten Stone" provides many details about a photographic studio in the Daguerreian era. Note the:

• Camera and tripod
• The laterally reversed plate the photographer is holding
• The mercury vapor box on the extreme right used in preparing the plates
• The mortar and pestle needed for grinding the chemicals

 
LL/9699