as in photograph
an old type of photographic image that was made on a piece of silver or a piece of copper covered in silver
The exhibit includes a series of fascinating daguerreotypes from the Civil War.
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Recent Examples of daguerreotype
The daguerreotype portraits, which are 175 years old, were identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather and his child.
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 29 May 2025
Still, daguerreotypes caught on in the United States in the 1840s, and portrait studios seemed to be everywhere.
—James Barron, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Creating a daguerreotype was a delicate, sometimes painstaking process that involved several chemical treatments and variable exposure times.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025
The settlement ends a 15-year battle between Lanier and the university to release the 19th-century daguerreotypes, a precursor to modern-day photographs.
—Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 29 May 2025
Still, daguerreotypes caught on in the United States in the 1840s, and portrait studios seemed to be everywhere.
—James Barron, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Creating a daguerreotype was a delicate, sometimes painstaking process that involved several chemical treatments and variable exposure times.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025
The settlement ends a 15-year battle between Lanier and the university to release the 19th-century daguerreotypes, a precursor to modern-day photographs.
—Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daguerreotype
Noun
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In the photograph’s pinprick sharpness, the few big houses that survive stand out on the fringe of hills at the edge of town.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
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Participants were presented with a series of experimental questions along with two facial photographs, one of a bearded face and another of a non-bearded one.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
Noun
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Mendoza was seen smirking in his arrest photo, seeming to be unfazed by his capture.—
Stepheny Price , Bill Melugin,
FOXNews.com,
15 July 2025
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Culpo also heaped praise on her co-parent, McCaffrey, in a series of additional photos on her Instagram stories.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
14 July 2025
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“Daguerreotype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daguerreotype. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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