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Article: Daguerreotype era is remembered at the National Museum of American Art.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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- September 1, 1995
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WASHINGTON _ Even before French physicist and artist Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre announced his newly developed photographic technique, known as the ``daguerreotype,'' in Paris on Aug. 19, 1839, intuitive word of mouth had brought reports of his innovation to the American press, and a curious public.
Daguerreotypes, created when an illuminated image is exposed to a polished surface coated with an iodine vapor, and later separately treated with mercury and a sodium solution, proved immensely popular in the United States in the mid-19th century. So much, in fact, that during its heyday, more daguerreotypes were produced in America than anywhere else in the world.
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