daguerreotype
/dəˈɡɛrəˌtaɪp/
noun
- An early type of photograph made on a silver-coated copper plate, popular in the mid-1800s.
- The museum displayed a daguerreotype of a woman from the 1850s.
- She studied the faded daguerreotype, trying to imagine the lives of the people in it.
- My great-great-grandfather's daguerreotype is the oldest photo in our family album.
verb
- To photograph using the daguerreotype process.
- They decided to daguerreotype the landscape for a historical project.
- In the 1840s, photographers would daguerreotype portraits of famous visitors.
- He learned how to daguerreotype from an old manual.