Object Details
- Draper, Daniel
- Draper, Henry
- Description
- Believed to be the first photographic portrait made in the United States, this portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper was originally taken by her brother Dr. John W. Draper (1811-1882) in his Washington Square studio at the New York University in 1839 or 1840, within the first year of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's announcement in Paris of his invention of the daguerreotype process. Identified as a copy daguerreotype, this reproduction was made by Draper's son Daniel when the original was displayed at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The original daguerreotype was damaged during an attempt at restoration early in the 1930s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
- 1893
- ID Number
- PG.72.72.B001
- accession number
- 304826
- catalog number
- 72.72.B1
- 72.72.B001
- Object Name
- Photograph
- photograph
- Other Terms
- Photograph; Daguerreotype
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 8.255 cm
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Portraits
- Women
- related event
- World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition
- Record ID
- nmah_834690
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-6fba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
