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Eclipse of the Sun,
William and Frederick Langenheim
Daguerreotype
On May 26, 1854, the Langenheim brothers made eight sequential photographs of the first total eclipse of the sun visible in North America since the invention of photography. Although six other daguerreotypists and one calotypist are known to have documented the event, only these seven daguerreotypes survive. Like all uncorrected daguerreotypes, the images look reversed laterally as in a mirror / {Called Back}