Video: Maryland Center for History and Culture Daguerreotypes
In October 2022, CCAHA welcomed Cinema Quilt to the lab to capture the stories behind five objects presented at our annual Open House. In this video, CCAHA Photograph Conservator Zach Long discusses a major project to treat and house the entire daguerreotype holdings of the Maryland Center for History and Culture, an unusually large collection of more than 300 plates. The daguerreotype was the first commercial photographic process, introduced in 1839 by French artist Louis Daguerre.