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daguerreotype

noun

as in photograph

an old type of photographic image that was made on a piece of silver or a piece of copper covered in silver The exhibit includes a series of fascinating daguerreotypes from the Civil War.

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Recent Examples of daguerreotype First observed on Aug 19, 1991, the day commemorates the invention of the daguerreotype, a photographic process developed in 1837. —

Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 July 2025 And the massive collection of photographic plates the Harvard Computers used in their work began with a July 17, 1850 daguerreotype of the star Vega. —

Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025 Developing a daguerreotype is an involved process, notes Ann Shumard, senior curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. —

Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 Ezekial Hawkins opened the city’s first daguerreotype studio on Third Street in 1841, just two years after the process was developed. —

Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for daguerreotype

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If paintings were like unedited photographs in the all-seeing eye of God—a record of human attitudes toward, and treatment of, the dog’s ubiquitous presence in life—then reality might explain why there are so many of them in art.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Thousands of faithful arrived early at the monastery, with groups of nuns and schoolchildren singing and waving signs and photographs of the pope outside the basilica.

— Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026