2-361-705 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Taking a Daguerreotype, 1855 (1956). The Daguerreotype system of photography was invented by French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre in 1839. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.