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European and American Photographs, 1845-1865

Examples of early photographic works in the DAC Collection comprise more than 1,000 daguerreotypes, tintypes, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards (many uncatalogd), and hand-colored calotype and albumen-print stereos.

Calotypes (from paper negatives) in the collection include 3 dating about 1845 by the inventor of the negative process, William Henry Fox Talbot, and The Colosseum by Talbot's assistant, Calvert Jones. In the DAC are also a group of albumen-print portraits copied from daguerreotypes by the American firm of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Hawes.

Among holdings in early French photographers are works by André Disderi (Unknown Actors, an uncut carte-de-visite); Nadar (2 woodburytypes, including Georges Sand); Charles Famin (2); and Eugène Cuvelier (1), both of whom worked in the Barbizon Forest; and C. Sauvaire & Charles Mauss (1 calotype on albumen paper).