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Re: Composite daguerrotype?



Dear Jeffrey:

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
Special Collections & Archives
Olin Library, Wesleyan University                       860.685.3863
252 Church St.                                          860.685.2661 fax
Middletown CT 06459                                     jmakala@wesleyan.edu

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