The Daguerreotypes of Nordiska museet

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The Daguerreotype was the first large scale commercial photographic process. Developed by Louis Daguerre together with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, it was presented to the public in 1839. Daguerreotypes were widely produced until more refined and less labour intensive techniques such as the wet plate collodion process became predominant in the 1850s.

In 2008, all daguerreotypes in Nordiska museet's collections were re-examined by the museum's curators, photographed and packaged in custom made archival boxes as part of a project called "Early Photographic Techniques". Here you will find photographs of these fascinating cultural artifacts presented cohesively for the first time.


Portrait of Queen Josefina of Sweden and Norway (1807-1876)
Daguerreotype by J. W. Bergström.
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Portrait of the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of the Swedish writer Emilie Flygare Carlén (1807-1892). Daguerreotype by J. W. Bergström.
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Portrait of the Swedish painter Marcus Larson (1825-1864). Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of an unknown man, c. 1850. Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of an unknown woman, c. 1850. Hand tinted, cased daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of two girls, c. 1850. Tinted daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of professor Frithiof Holmgren (1831-1897). Tinted daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Group portrait, Uppsala, Sweden, 1856. Daguerreotype by W. A. Eurenius.
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Group portrait. Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of Mrs. Marianne Delander, 1840s. Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of unknown woman in riding dress, 1850s. Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of unknown couple, 1850s. Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of a woman and a girl. Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of an unknown man, 1850s. Daguerreotype by J. W. Bergström.
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Portrait of an unknown man. Tinted daguerreotype, photographer unknown, 1850s.
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Portrait of Queen Sophia's teacher, Miss Hessel. Daguerreotype, 1840s, probably by J. W. Bergström, Stockholm.
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Portrait of Nils Nordlander (1796-1874). Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of Johan Adler (1776-1857) and his wife Anna Jonsdotter (d. 1859). Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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Portrait of an unknown man dated 27 July, 1847. Daguerreotype, photographer unknown.
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