print email comment close America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839 - 1864 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/ Description: A searchable and browsable collection of hundreds of photographs taken between 1839 and 1864. The majority are portraits taken by the Mathew Brady studio. Includes photographic views of buildings and monuments in the Washington-Baltimore area, street scenes in Philadelphia, and "studio portraits by black photographers James P. Ball and Francis Grice." Includes background about the medium, a glossary, timeline, and a bibliography. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Publisher: Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: Daguerreotype Photography -- History Photography -- United States LII Database Information: Record 2835 created by Dana Lubow on 10/22/2000 Last modification on 07/07/2004 Published: 10/22/2000   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2835