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Example sentences for "daguerreotypes"

Lexicographically close words:
dagobas; dagoes; dagos; daguerreotype; daguerreotyped; daguerrotype; dagum; dahabeah; dahabeeyah; dahabieh
  1. The following method of producing Daguerreotypes has by some been named as above.

  2. As the freshman went by, they made a careful study of his person, and took mental daguerreotypes of his features.

  3. My chief occupation was to colour the Daguerreotypes taken by Mr. Hughes, and occasionally take sitters, when Mr. Hughes was busy, in another studio.

  4. Three of the four portraits were as fine Daguerreotypes as could be produced anywhere.

  5. Another house made a feature of "Daguerreotypes painted in oil;" and the likeness was most admirably preserved.

  6. Many of my coloured Daguerreotypes were exhibited at the State Fair in Castle Garden, and at the Great Exhibition at New York in 1853.

  7. Levi Hill, who lately died in New York, the so-called inventor or discoverer of the Hillotype, or Daguerreotypes in natural colours.

  8. Ambrotypes, or "Daguerreotypes on glass" as some called them, were afterwards produced in much the same manufacturing manner.

  9. Early in January, 1860, my home and business were destroyed by fire, and I lost all my old and new specimens of Daguerreotypes and photographs, all my Daguerreotype and other apparatus, and nearly everything I possessed.

  10. Those Daguerreotypes were remarkable for their sharpness and delicacy, and the many trying conditions under which they were taken.

  11. However this may be, the character of the daguerreotypes executed in America is very remarkable.

  12. Five daguerreotypes on the mantelpiece represented the Morpher family in the progressive stages of petrifaction, and had the Medusa-like effect of freezing visitors into similar attitudes in their chairs.

  13. When daguerreotypes were first made, when we heard that the sun was going to take everybody's portrait, it seemed almost too great a marvel to be believed.

  14. My sister and I considered it quite an event when we went to have our daguerreotypes taken just before we started for the West.

  15. Mrs. Follen saw some daguerreotypes in Boston when she was there, and she says they are splendid.

  16. The method of laying colors on Daguerreotypes is one of considerable difficulty, inasmuch as they are used in the form of perfectly dry impalpable powder.

  17. The durability of daguerreotypes has been, and is still, doubted by many, but experiment has proved that they are more permanent than oil paintings or engravings.

  18. To Preserve Daguerreotypes they must be well sealed and secured in a case, or frame.

  19. On coloring Daguerreotypes 129 On the probability of Producing colored Photographs.

  20. I too could see the blue smoke thicken, and then we both walked a little faster, while Mrs. Todd groped in her full bag of herbs to find the daguerreotypes and be ready to put them in their places.

  21. These, with a few daguerreotypes in a little square pile, had the closet to themselves, and I was conscious of much pleasure in seeing them.

  22. He became deeply absorbed in daguerreotypes and sauce-pan lids above the fireplace, to the exclusion of all else.


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