America and the Daguerreotype

This is a beautifully illustrated book with eight new essays on the daguerreian experience in America. Many previously unpublished images are included in this volume. The essays by John Stilgoe, David Stannard, Peter Palmquist, Delores Kilgo, John Graf, Brooks Johnson, Jeanne Verhulst, and John Wood explore such topics as the daguerreotype and the selling of the West, the daguerreotype and the militia, trade daguerreotypes, landscapes, portraits, and the contemporary daguerreotype.