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an uncased Daguerreotype of a young man and a Hindman clock – courtesy of the Daguerreian Society talk and fair this fall<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. The earliest photographic images were enclosed in a case. The first announced process, the Daguerreotype, was dubbed “the mirror with a memory”.<\/p>\n

The use of a case with a dark background inside the cover – often velvet – allowed for the best viewing.<\/p>\n

The case protected the delicate daguerreotype with a thin metal border for spacing and a glass on top to protect the fragile surface of the Daguerreotype. A gold foil wrapper around the layers kept daguerreotype, frame, and cover glass together, ready to be slipped into the case.<\/p>\n

Ambrotypes also needed to be cased. The sandwich included the dark background needed behind the bleached glass negative to show the more transparent areas of the image as dark.<\/p>\n

The uncased image shown at left is courtesy of the PHSC exchange group, The Daguerreian Society<\/a>. In time the ‘case’ possibly became synonymous with a more expensive ‘likeness’ as the cases can be seen enclosing tintypes which require no special backgrounds nor protection.<\/p>\n

The cases can also be dated by their design. However, some folk combine a good case and fine daguerreotype image to increase the package value although case and image are from different periods.<\/p>\n

One of the primary collection societies for these earliest of photographs is the Daguerreian Society, whose members are holding a Symposium and Fair<\/a> down in Hartford Connecticut this fall as noted in this quote: \u00a0“People just like you are planning to gather September 25\u201327 in Hartford, Connecticut for the world\u2019s largest conference on 19th-century photography: The Daguerreian Society Symposium & Photo Fair.”<\/p>\n

And the Symposium speakers can be heard through a ‘virtual experience<\/a>‘ as described on their web site if you can’t make it to Hartford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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