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
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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
Let us, therefore,—whatever his defects of nature and education, and in spite of his scorn for creeds and institutions,—concede to the daguerreotypist the rare and high quality of reverence for another's individuality.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Procter had been lately sitting to a daguerreotypist for a picture, and Mrs. Jameson, who was very fond of the poet, had arranged the camera for that occasion.
From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields
There are but five of them, Hepzibah, Clifford, Phoebe, the daguerreotypist, and the Judge, with the contributory figures of Uncle Venner and little Ned Higgins.
From Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry
