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Re: Composite daguerrotype?



I have read descriptions of the process used to make commercial stereo
cards, where multiple images would be exposed on  single sheet of material
(this was an attempt to overcome the technical limitations of early photo
processes, which did not use a negative).  These would all be nearly the
same image,  in pairs of nearly identical images, which would then be made
into stereo cards.  These were produced by special cameras with a lense for
each image produced. On occasion these pairs would be separated.  Among
stereo collectors, finding both halves of a separated pair is akin to
finding the holy grail.

Randy Hees


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffrey Makala <jmakala@MAIL.WESLEYAN.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 2:25 PM
Subject: Composite daguerrotype?


> I realize this may best be directed to a photography list, but I'll ask
> anyway since it's a college and university archives-based question.
>
> I've recently come across a daguerrotype made in Hartford in 1853
> that is a composite image of 24 individual portraits. Since there are no
> negatives involved in the process, as best as I can determine the original
> daguerrotype portraits were made, arranged as a group, and then
> photographed together, producing a composite image (about 6" x 9", which
> is pretty large for this type of item).
>
> I've never seen anything like this before with early photographs. Has
> anyone come across this sort of thing before?
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Makala
> Processing Archivist/Reference Librarian
> Special Collections & Archives
> Olin Library, Wesleyan University                       860.685.3863
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