Daguerreotypes were made from 1839 to the 1860s. The process was developed by Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre. He discovered how to fix images produced by cameras obscura. Daguerreotypes became a popular means of portraiture, especially by the late 1840s when exposure times were reduced to only a few seconds. Daguerreotypes were replaced by ambrotypes in the 1850s, which were faster and cheaper to produce.
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