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Article: Miniature case art.(daguerreotype cases)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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In the earliest day of photography in the United States daguerreo-typists followed the tradition of miniature painters by placing their silvery images in small rectangular cases.(1) It is possible that the first daguerreotype cases were jewelry cases because Mathew B. Brady (c. 1823-1896), a maker of jewelry cases, became an active daguerrotypist in 1843 and often provided cases used for portrait miniatures to the pioneer photographers.(2)
The first mention of a case containing a daguerreotype appeared in the New York Morning Herald on September 30, 1839, which described a daguerreotype of Saint Patti's Chapel in New York City as follows:
It is the first ...