This photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows an ambrotype image of President Abraham Lincoln circa 1858. During his U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, ...
Giles Clement, 35, is bringing his old-fashioned photography to Raleigh on June 30. Clement has been practicing wet plate collodion photography since 2012. During his time in Raleigh, Clement will be ...
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes Kaila Philo Photography is an art that often gets taken ...
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The ambrotype, a photographic process invented in the 1850s, took its name from the Greek for “immortal” or “imperishable.” An underdeveloped positive on coated glass, the ambrotype image assumed full ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This quarter-plate ambrotype made by an unknown photographer, shows the balloon ascension by John Steiner at Erie, Pennsylvania, on June 18, 1857.
An Ambrotype photo of an unidentified soldier, who left this image of himself with Mrs. L.M.C. Lee of Corinth, Mississippi, on the eve of the battle of Shiloh. The soldier never reclaimed his image ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln sat for a photograph after politicking in western Illinois and presented one of the copies to ...
A look inside the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln ...