Narratives

Catalogue Entry 1989

[] American union case containing portraits of Indians, anonymous, c.1855. The man, on the right, is a collodion positive on glass (ambrotype), not a daguerreotype. For much of the 1850s the two processes co-existed.

[From the exhibition booklet Photography 150: Images from the First Generation (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1989)]

Other narratives:

• Daguerreotypes
• Collodion Positives

Related Objects:

• Inventory No. 91018, "Two Photographs (Daguerreotype and Collodion Positive on Glass) of a Native American Woman and Man, c.1855" [1961-137/34]