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  • noun Common misspelling of daguerreotype.

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  • Opening it by pulling two tiny hooks through eyelets, like clasps on a locket, one sees a soft red velvet pad decorated with a floral design and on the other side an elaborate gold frame that holds a daguerrotype which is an early form of photography.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • Opening it by pulling two tiny hooks through eyelets, like clasps on a locket, one sees a soft red velvet pad decorated with a floral design and on the other side an elaborate gold frame that holds a daguerrotype which is an early form of photography.

    Silver Threads Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • The Haunted Doll's House I seem to recall is one of those, there's another tale with a daguerrotype which is basically the same story.

    Brit Lit Blogs 2009

  • Steampunk is popular simply because brass ray-guns, airships, Analytical Engines, and bitchin 'stovepipe toppers with built-in daguerrotype cameras are just flat-out cool.

    [GUEST POST] Lavie Tidhar Asks 'What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Steampunk?' 2010

  • Occasionally it would flare up because you had the sense that, somewhere, your child might be posing for an ill-advised daguerrotype, but you could generally arrange for the pony delivering this to fall into a peat bog and die before any damage could be done.

    Cell phones alter brain activity? Of course! 2011

  • NPR reports that a couple of collectors of old photos recently discovered that a daguerrotype they've owned since the 1960s is the only known photograph of Phineas Gage.

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • Also at Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, I thought I'd seen most of the good Inauguration photos but this pigment print made from a daguerrotype by master dag maker Jerry Spagnoli was a nice mix of old and new.

    Aisle 3 The Year in Pictures 2009

  • Just inside the door, under a daguerrotype of Clayton Daly, was a crescent-shaped walnut counter.

    Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set Richard Paul Evans 2009

  • Also at Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, I thought I'd seen most of the good Inauguration photos but this pigment print made from a daguerrotype by master dag maker Jerry Spagnoli was a nice mix of old and new.

    Archive 2009-03-01 The Year in Pictures 2009

  • Another decade and the daguerrotype would be largely supplanted by the albumen print, which made images on paper instead of metal.

    Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source 2008

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