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Frederick Langenheim

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Frederick Langenheim

William Langenheim (American, born Germany, 1807–1874)

Date:: ca. 1849–50
Medium:: Daguerreotype
Dimensions:: Image: 11.7 x 8.6 cm (4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.) Case: 1.4 x 11.9 x 15.2 cm (9/16 x 4 11/16 x 6 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.216

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Langenheim Family; [Rinhart Galleries, Inc.]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, August 4, 1983
Notes

The Gilman Collection has a similar case in its collection (2005.100.230). As the image depicts F.D. Langenheim (1849-1939) at approximately one-year old, this image can be comparably dated to c.1850. In 1846 Frederick Langenheim purchased a patent to color daguereotypes from the Swiss miniaturist and daguerreotypist Johann B. Isenring. Frederick preceeded to improve uppon the process to fix the color more permanently. 1846 can therefore be used as an outset date for this daguerreotype.
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