A number of our class photographs after the Civil War were done in this fashion - as a composite of individual carte-de-vistas. We have only one class tintype prior to the "Wawa" (as they say in S.C.) and that includes all members of the Class of 1854 (4!) in a single photograph.
Cordially
Jeffrey Makala wrote:
I realize this may best be directed to a photography list, but I'll ask
anyway since it's a college and university archives-based question.I've recently come across a daguerrotype made in Hartford in 1853
that is a composite image of 24 individual portraits. Since there are no
negatives involved in the process, as best as I can determine the original
daguerrotype portraits were made, arranged as a group, and then
photographed together, producing a composite image (about 6" x 9", which
is pretty large for this type of item).I've never seen anything like this before with early photographs. Has
anyone come across this sort of thing before?Jeffrey Makala
Processing Archivist/Reference Librarian
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