Light and chemistry created the shiny,

silvery portraits of people and places that

were once America. These images, called
daguerreotypes, extended American
democracy, recording pictures of people,
places, and events of the powerful and the
poor. From President Abraham Lincoln to
an east view of the US Capitol to the
earliest images of American female
US Capitol, east view, 1853
workers to African-Americans who
returned to Africa, daguerreotypes
document a remarkable American
landscape.

In 1824, Jane Waring emigrated to Liberia and in

1836, married Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Liberia's
first President.

Solomon Nunes Carvalho, a Charleston-born Jew

explored the west with Charleston-raised John
Frémont.

Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1846-47, Member, US A Carvalho daguerreotype of a Cheyenne village,

House of Representatives, ILL ca. 1853, copied by Matthew Brady.

Urias McGill, a Liberian-American business man,

America's First owned several trans-Atlantic ships.

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