American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype

by S. D. Humphrey

This etext was created by Gregory Walker, Austin, Texas, for the Digital Daguerreian Archive Project.
Page numbers explicitly referred to in the text are marked at their beginning by “[page ##]” on a separate line. I hope this etext inspires a wider interest in the origins of photography and in the modern practice of the Daguerreian Art.

[Updater’s note: In this version, the above page numbering convention has been replaced by “{##}” sequences placed in line with the surrounding text.]

AMERICAN HAND BOOK
OF THE
DAGUERREOTYPE

GIVING
THE MOST APPROVED AND CONVENIENT
METHODS FOR PREPARING THE CHEMICALS, AND
THE COMBINATIONS USED IN THE ART.

CONTAINING THE
DAGUERREOTYPE, ELECTROTYPE,
AND VARIOUS OTHER PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN TAKING
HELIOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS.

BY S. D. HUMPHREY

FIFTH EDITION

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY S. D. HUMPHREY
37 LISPENARD STREET
1858

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858,
by S. D. HUMPHREY, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court
of the Southern District of New York.

To J. GURNEY, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL SKILL, SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY,
AND ENERGETIC PERSEVERANCE, HAVE WON FOR HIM UNIVERSAL ESTEEM,
THIS WORK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.