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For All,Has anyone ever heard of a manufacturer of CDV albums by the name of Amand Plaut?  I was going through an 1860s CDV album the other day and discovered a CDV-sized advertising card loose within its pages.  The orange card has a patriotic engraving of an American Eagle with "E. Pluribus Unum" across it, along with the words "Amand Plaut, Manufacturer of Photographic Albums, New-York."I had not heard of this album manufacturer before, nor did I find much info doing a Google search except…See More

Come to the US and learn the history of the daguerreotype (the world’s first viable photographic process) and the techniques required to make one yourself. This hands-on workshop will be taught by modern daguerreotypist, Rob McElroy, who will demonstrate all of the steps necessary to create a modern mercury-developed daguerreotype. Each participant will perform all the steps themselves (plate…See More

Focussing on all facets of the history of the carte de visite and the photographers that made them in Great Britain and around the world.See More