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A specialist in an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor;

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  • Finding himself stranded, West headed for Canton, where he could earn his fare by employing his skills as a painter and daguerreotypist.
  • Connecticut as errand-boy, daguerreotypist, teacher, doctor; -- so he came into the Gurney garden that night, shrewd, defiant, priding himself on detecting shams.
  • Around 1850, two slave women called Delia (left image) and Drana (right image) were included in a photographic record made by daguerreotypist Joseph T. Zealy, which was...
  • Holgrave, the young daguerreotypist in "The House of the Seven Gables,"
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