daguerreotype
noun
an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
daguerreotypist
-
a word derived from
daguerreotype.
Example Sentences
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The show included an 1860 lithographic portrait of the artist by Jules Lion, a popular New Orleans printmaker and daguerreotypist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
No tough daguerreotypist who trundled over the Great Plains in that period could afford such scope, though from the Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Good-morning, Uncle Venner!" said the daguerreotypist, leaning out of the window.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
As for the daguerreotypist, she had read a paragraph in a penny paper, the other day, accusing him of making a speech full of wild and disorganizing matter, at a meeting of his banditti-like associates.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
His present phase, as a daguerreotypist, was of no more importance in his own view, nor likely to be more permanent, than any of the preceding ones.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
