Casts from the Past

On August 19, 1839, Louis Daguerre and the French government gave the gift of “practical” photography to the world. It was instantly popular with the public and everybody wanted a portrait of themselves. It was the Polaroid of its day.

A daguerreotype is a …

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I’ve been thinking about my recent digitization efforts working with ScanCafe.com and how it has been a long process to have every single image that my Grandpa, Gene Buel, owned made into TIFF files. Besides just having them scanned, ScanCafe.com has also restored some select images …

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