Just amazing! To think that one of my ancestors might have been in one of those photos! Gerry Hertfordshire, UK Researching JACOBS, HARRIS & SILVERSTONE (London/Ohio/Germany/Poland)   --- On Tue, 3/8/10, lindag1947@comcast.net <lindag1947@comcast.net> wrote: > From: lindag1947@comcast.net <lindag1947@comcast.net> > Subject: [OHHAMILT] Daguerrotype of Cincinnati in 1848 > To: "OHHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com " <OHHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Tuesday, 3 August, 2010, 17:55 > > > From Dick Eastman's  newsletter today: > August 02, 2010 > > 1848 Daguerreotypes of Cincinnati > > Listen to this article. Powered by Odiogo.com > > Ff_daguerreotype6_fIn 1848, Charles Fontayne and William > Porter produced some of the best photographs ever produced > at the time: a panorama spanning some 2 miles of Cincinnati > waterfront. They did it with eight 6.5-by 8.5-inch > daguerreotype plates, a then-new technology that in skilled > hands displays mind-blowing resolution. The plates have been > preserved. > > Three years ago, conservators at George Eastman House in > Rochester, New York, began restoration work on the > deteriorating plates. It wasn't until then that photography > historians realized just how good the pictures were. When > displayed at 30-power magnification, you can see curtains in > distant windows and even identify individual spokes on wagon > wheels. > > > The daguerreotypes were beginning to deteriorate so > conservators placed them in a case filled with inert argon > gas to arrest the deterioration. The images were then > digitally scanned by specialists at the University of > Rochester. > > Were your ancestors in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1848? If so, you > can see what they saw. Even better, the pictures also show > what life was like in most any mid-western city of the day. > > > You can view Charles Fontayne and William Porter's > daguerreotypes at http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_daguerrotype_panorama/all/1 > > To contact the List Administrator, send an email to: Kaesemein@aol.com > > Did you miss a message?  You can find it in the list's > archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/OHHAMILT/ > > Don't forget--there is also a message board for Hamilton > County: > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.hamilton/mb.ashx > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHHAMILT-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message