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DAGUERRE, Louis: Memorial at the Nat'l Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Address: F & 7th Sts. NW Nearest Metro: Gallery Pl-Chinatown (Red - Yellow - Green)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 75003593 (dcMem ID #424)
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The French artist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) became interested in the 1820s in trying to capture images photographically. In August 1839 his "Daguerrotype" technique -- fixing an image on a light-sensitive, polished silver plate -- was announced to the public. This was the first photographic process to be used widely in Europe and the United States.
In 1890 the Professional Photographers of America donated this monument to Daguerre, by the American sculptor Jonathon Scott Hartley, to the American people. The bronze figure was cast by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company of New York. Placed in the Smithsonian Institutions's National Museum Building (now known as the Arts and Industries building) to celebrate the first half-century of photograpy, the monument was displayed [...] from 1897 to 1969.
The rededication of the Daguerre Monument [...]
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To commemorate the half centruy in photography 1839 - 1889. Erected by the photographers association of America Aug. 1890
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Photography, the electric telegraph, and the steam engine are the three great discoveries of the age. No five centuries in human progress can show such strides as these.
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