DAGUERREOTYPES AND BOOK SLEUTHING - An NEDCC Story Nineteenth century rare books, daguerreotypes, and twenty-first century digital imaging technology converge to help us glimpse the lives of people in the 1840-50's... Todd Pattison remembers the first time a daguerreotype really caught his eye. "A friend who collects nineteenth century photographs alerted me to a daguerreotype he had seen for sale. There was a young boy in the image holding a book with a striped binding, which I recognized as a particular type of printed pattern cloth used as a binding material for only a few years in the late 1840's. These bindings are quite rare now and I was surprised that you could make out the details of the cloth pattern in the photograph." Pattison, Senior Book Conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, is also a passionate book collector with a particular interest in mid-19th century cloth publisher's bindings. Over the past ten years, he has begun to collect daguerreotypes that feature books in personal portraits. . . READ MORE: http://www.nedcc.org/about/nedcc-stories/daguerreotypes-and-book-sleuthing JOIN THE NEDCC E-LIST for more stories like this, as well as updates on our training programs and other preservation news: http://www.nedcc.org/contact/sign-up-for-news ***************************** NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER Andover, MA Preserving Cultural Heritage Collections Since 1973 www.nedcc.org ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).