A walk down the memory lane with the help of some of the oldest surviving collections of daguerreotypes and the fine folks who have digitized and publish them for public.

First developed by French geniuses Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851) and Joseph Nicéphorus Niépce (1765 – 1833). Little that they know, the Daguerreotype would spark an era of photographic artistry, as well as industry, as we know it today.