Order of the black hand

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1867, [A photograph of the gas balloon belonging to John Steiner is made ready for an ascension in Erie, Pennsylvania on June 18, 1857. It is the earliest photograph of an American flying machine.]

via the Smithsonian Institute, National Air and Space Museum Archives

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860-1900, [ambrotype portrait of a watchmaker with his tools]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

bandh:

“Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.”

– Edward Weston (1886-1958, photographer)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1847, [daguerreotype portrait of Thomas Forsyth, mountain spy and guide], Thomas M. Easterly

via the Missouri History Museum

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1855, [portrait of a young gentleman seated with his dog]

via I Photo Central

bandh:

This Week in Photography History

Oldest surviving image of the sun taken on April 2, 1845. This daguerreotype was created by physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault, who created many images of the sun at the Paris observatory in 1844 and 1845. The exposure time was 1/60. Although lacking the details of the sun’s surface obtained later through use of filters, a few sunspots are visible.

silentcuriosity:

Henry Peters Gray~American Portrait and Genre Painter.

Daguerreotype 1844

One of his notable canvases was an allegorical composition called “The Birth of our Flag” (1875)

SOURCE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Peters_Gray

(via americanisms-deactivated2012121)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1844, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman holding a large key]

via the J. Paul Getty Museum

hellohistoria:

Charles Emmons, Son of Catherine Brown Emmons, Scovill 1/6th-Plate Daguerreotype, Circa 1850 (by lisby1)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1856, [cropped daguerreotype copy of a Gilbert Stuart’s painted portrait of George Washington], James E. McClees

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection

hellohistoria:

Dag_00069 :: 5 Men of Purpose and Friendship (by cosmorochester collects)

hellohistoria:

Calvin Calkins (1780-1862) (by berndfr)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of James Rossi and William Bennett], James Rossi

via Harvard University Library, Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Theatre Collection

foto-jennic:

Look of Longing

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Albert Sands Southworth

daguerreotype, ca. 1848

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of two wounded Federal soldiers on crutches]

via Heritage Auctions