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  • noun Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.

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Examples

  • And here I was picturing someone sitting and enhancing daguerrotypes with the aid of a Babbage Numerator...

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • Since images were able to be reproduced with photographic techniques, they have been altered: from hand-tinted daguerrotypes to hand-tinting negatives to 'airbrushing.'

    Eli Neugeboren: Criminalizing Retouching 2009

  • Someone who knows the history of photographs would have to tell me when daguerrotypes were made, but it was generations ago.

    Silver Threads Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • I had never heard of Sarah Baartman, let alone learned about the circulation of lynching images or the Agassiz daguerrotypes before I came to college and was presented with their history.

    Do They See What I See?: Teaching Visual History and Inadvertently Recycling Racism Anxious Black Woman 2008

  • Someone who knows the history of photographs would have to tell me when daguerrotypes were made, but it was generations ago.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • March 3rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm i had never heard of post-mortem daguerrotypes before, but i think that this one is very well done. very pretty.

    Daguerreotype of the week: post-mortem « knitnut.net 2006

  • At my door were many stiff brown cards bearing daguerrotypes of those who had come to call.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • At my door were many stiff brown cards bearing daguerrotypes of those who had come to call.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • At my door were many stiff brown cards bearing daguerrotypes of those who had come to call.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • A burnt-out candle stood at his elbow; and in a line before him were ranged such images as remained to him of his dead — a dozen or more daguerrotypes, of various sizes: Emma and he before marriage and after marriage; Emma with her first babe, at different stages of its growth; Emma with the two children; Emma in ball-attire; with a hat on; holding a book.

    Australia Felix 2003

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