The Daguerreian Era and Early American Photography on Paper, 1839–60 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-daguerreian-era-and-early-american-photography-on-paper-1839-1860
The daguerreotype process, employing a polished silver-plated sheet of copper, was the dominant form of photography for the first twenty years of picture making in the United States.
Beecher Stowe Multiple artists/makers 1850s [Man Holding Patent Office Book] Oliver
