Thomas Jefferson’s own copy of a series of books about the history of Don Quixote’s is headed to auction June 21, during Cowan’s Auctions American History auction. Read More +
Two daguerrotypes of President Abraham Lincoln, including a rare period copy daguerrotype of a “beardless” Lincoln, exceeds estimates, in 200-lot auction. Read More +
A two-evening photography sale ended with more than 200 daguerreotypes from a single 30-year collection from Rochester, N.Y., crossing the block Oct. 3-4 in a sale hosted by Kaminski Auctions in Beverly, Mass. Read More +
Cowan’s Auctions, Inc. American History, Including the Civil War Auction realized $697,000 in the June 21, 2012 sale. The highest selling lot in the sale was an Alexander Gardner Colloidon glass negative from Abraham Lincoln’s last sitting. Read More +
The daguerreotype, the invention of French commercial artist Louis Daguerre, is the result of an early photographic process that used iodine vapors to sensitize plates of polished silver. Read More +