The American annual of photography . or of his discovery, appointed him an of^cer of the Legion of Honor. That same year, MissDorothy Catherine Draper posed for a Daguerrotype for herbrother, Dr. John W. Draper, in New York. As far asknown, she was the first person to pose for a photograph;she was obliged to pose for six minutes. It now takes 1/1500part of a second to produce the same result. This importantpersonage was a handsome, vivacious w^oman, known in NewYork society as Dolly Draper. She died at the age ofninety-five, in December, 1901, at Hastings-on-Hudson. Daguerre was born in France
The American annual of photography . or of his discovery, appointed him an of^cer of the Legion of Honor. That same year, MissDorothy Catherine Draper posed for a Daguerrotype for herbrother, Dr. John W. Draper, in New York. As far asknown, she was the first person to pose for a photograph;she was obliged to pose for six minutes. It now takes 1/1500part of a second to produce the same result. This importantpersonage was a handsome, vivacious w^oman, known in NewYork society as Dolly Draper. She died at the age ofninety-five, in December, 1901, at Hastings-on-Hudson. Daguerre was born in France in 1789, and died there in1851. He was a painter and physicist. He was greatly as-sisted in working out his process by J. Nicephore Niepce, whodied in 1833, before the process was successfully 2nd, 1839, Daguerres process, together with his sys-tem of transparent and opaque painting, was published by theFrench government, and soon became generally 1829 to 1833, while Daguerre and Niepce collaborated, 180. The raggedy man, he knows most tells em if I be good sometimes. NANCY FORD CONES. z8z their productions were called Heliographic Pictures/ Theirmethod of fixing the images produced in the camera was byusing metallic plates, coated with a composition of asphalt andoil of lavender. This, where acted on by the light, remainedundissolved when the plate was plunged into a mixture ofpetroleum and oil of lavender; and the development of theimage was affected by the action of acids and other chemicalre-agents on the exposed surface of a copper plate.
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