June 2nd, 2013
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1840’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two women embracing, one wearing tinted spectacles] via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographics, Skylight Gallery

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1840’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two women embracing, one wearing tinted spectacles]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographics, Skylight Gallery

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March 27th, 2013
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of a smiling, dark haired young lady, identified as Carlotta Patti, with lace gloves and a fan] via Harvard University, Houghton Library, Harvard Theatre Collection

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of a smiling, dark haired young lady, identified as Carlotta Patti, with lace gloves and a fan]

via Harvard University, Houghton Library, Harvard Theatre Collection

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February 25th, 2013
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1845, [daguerreotype portrait of a mustachioed musician holding his flute] via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of W. & T. Bosshard, Courtesy of Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1845, [daguerreotype portrait of a mustachioed musician holding his flute]

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of W. & T. Bosshard, Courtesy of Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing

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December 13th, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1850, “Albert Pritchard Root Asleep by the Flag”, Marcus Aurelius Root via Christie’s

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850, “Albert Pritchard Root Asleep by the Flag”, Marcus Aurelius Root

via Christie’s

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November 10th, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and smoking a cigar] via Harvard University’s Houghton Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Art, Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography and looking fucking intense…

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and smoking a cigar]

via Harvard University’s Houghton Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Art, Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography

and looking fucking intense…

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October 21st, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a young boy with a hat and his long hair in ringlets] via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a young boy with a hat and his long hair in ringlets]

via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

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July 23rd, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1850’s, [Daguerreotype portrait of a Scotsman wearing ethnic costume] via the Daguerreian Society, Greg French Collections

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850’s, [Daguerreotype portrait of a Scotsman wearing ethnic costume]

via the Daguerreian Society, Greg French Collections

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April 25th, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a bearded gentleman with leonine coiffure] via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a bearded gentleman with leonine coiffure]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

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April 10th, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of a blind gentleman holding a cat] via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of a blind gentleman holding a cat]

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive

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April 4th, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1850’s, [portrait of a gentleman with photographic equipment] via the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Daguerreobase

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850’s, [portrait of a gentleman with photographic equipment]

via the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Daguerreobase

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