HENRY DAVID THOREAU.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892).
PORTRAIT OF A MAN, c1850.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIE
ALFRED TENNYSON (1809-1892).
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849).
ADAM MICKIEWICZ (1798-1855).
CORNELIUS VANDERBIL
DAGUERREOTYPE: MAN, c1850.
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT
CHARLES SUMNER (1811-1874).
LEMUEL SHAW (1781-1861).
DAGUERREOTYPE, 1854.
DAGUERREOTYPE: 1843.
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, c1850.
EDGAR ALLEN POE
SAMUEL MORSE (1791-1872).
AFRICAN-BORN SLAVE, 1850.
ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845).
MARTIN VAN BUREN (1782-1862).
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862). American writer. Pencil drawing, 1854, by Daniel Ricketson.
SIR HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886).
ROLLIN HEBER NEAL (1808-79).
FRANCIS PARKMAN (1823-1893).
DAGUERREOTYPIST, 1850s.
ZACHARY TAYLOR (1784-1850).
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865).
MILLARD FILLMORE (1800-1874).
DANIEL WEBSTER (1782-1852).
HENRY DAVID THOREA
HORACE MANN (1796-1859).
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870).
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891).
HENRI MURGER (1822-1861).
WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS
ALPHONSE KARR (1808-1890).
ROBERT CHAMBERS (1802-1871).
ALEKSANDR IVANOVICH HERZEN
JANE M.A. PIERCE (1806-1863).
LOUIS DAGUERRE (1789-1851).
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, c1852.
CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896). American abolitionist and writer. Oil over a daguerrotype, c1852.
ARMIN VAMBERY (1832?-1913).
STENDHAL (1783-1842).
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909).
ALPHONSE DAUDET (1840-1897).
SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE
Louis Daguerre.
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR
YOUNG MAN, c1845.
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
LOUIS J.M. DAGUERRE
HERMAN MELVILLE
JULES VERNE (1828-1905).
BAYARD TAYLOR (1825-1878).
WILKIE COLLINS (1824-1889).
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
LUCRETIA MOTT (1793-1880).
LADY IN RIDING HABIT.
DAGUERREOTYPE, 1850.
YOUNG WOMAN, c1850.
DAGUERREOTYPE, 1843. Daguerreotype of an unidentified woman, c1843.
SEWING MACHINE, c1853.
DONALD McKAY (1810-1880).
HENRY ARTHUR JONES
JAMES K. POLK (1795-1849).
HENRY RUSELL (1812-1900).
AFRICAN SLAVE, 1850.
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
Bearded Man in Formal Attire, Portrait, Daguerreotype, circa 1850's
A mercury box used to develop daguerreotype photographs.
FRIEDRICH W.J. von SCHELLING
JAMES B. YATES (c1838-?).
JAMES MUX PRIEST (?-1883).
GEORGE MARSH (1801-1882).
JOSEPH STORY (1779-1845).
JOHN TYLER (1790-1862).
FRANKLIN PIERCE (1804-1869).
FRANKLIN PIERCE
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT
GEORGE MCDUFFIE (1790-1851).
HENRY JAMES (1843-1916).
HENRY CABOT LODGE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
EDMOND & JULES GONCOURT.
CALIFORNIA: GOLD RUSH.
WILLIAM HOLMES MCGUFFEY
CALIFORNIA NEWS, c1850.
Benn Pitman, shorthand inventor
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
ANTOINE-FREDERIC OZANAM
CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875).
LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910).
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN (1814-1876).
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A camera used to take daguerreotype photographs.
MICHEL EYQUEM de MONTAIGN
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGN
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924).
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
WILLIAM ELLIS (1794-1872).
BRANDER MATTHEWS
IVAN TURGENEV (1818-1883).
GEORGE MacDONALD
GEORGE MACDONALD
PROSPER MERIMEE (1803-1870).
ABRAHAM 'BRAM' STOKER
SIR THEODORE MARTIN
IVAN SERGEEVICH TURGENEV
ARTHUR SCHNITZLE
SIR LESLIE STEPHEN
PAUL SCARRON (1610-1660).
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
CHARLES PIERRE PEGUY
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
JOHN WILSON (1785-1854).
JULES VERNE (1828-1905)