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Daguerreotype of a city street with shop awnings – Antique Photo Print

Daguerreotype of a city street with shop awnings, 1842 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype of a city street with shop awnings, 1842. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Shop awnings stretched over the sidewalk are the detail that sets this scene apart, and they tell us something about commercial life in the early 1840s. Daguerreotypes required exposures lasting several minutes, so moving carriages and passing pedestrians usually left no trace, while anyone who lingered in one spot could register as a faint figure. Each plate was a single positive image on silvered copper, unique and not reproducible, which makes early street views like this one rare records of how busy urban frontages looked before photography became common.

Created / published1842
Original scan3,313 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference115_North_side_of_Chestnut_1842

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