I see dead people. In antiques stores, in books, on the Web. You can, too, if you're not afraid. You don't need a sixth sense, just an open mind and an acceptance of death as a part of life. Our ...

Larry West was looking for a hobby that would combine visual arts and American history. And he found it in 1975 at an antique store in Mamaroneck, N.Y. At that time, boxes of daguerreotypes — the ...

Digital picture taking has sealed the tomb of chemically-processed photography as we've known it. But there's still a lot of interest, especially in the museum world, in pre-digital photography.

Very few collectibles have gone from the category of trash to treasure as quickly as old photographs and postcards. They are generally inexpensive, historically interesting, graphically pleasing, easy ...

LEESBURG — The silent-movie stars of the 1920s would never have imagined it: People in the future dressing up to look just like them and then posing for photos to adorn living-room walls. Antique ...

Despite tintype photography’s Civil War–era origins, you can hold a magnifying glass to such a photo and see individual threads of clothing. That’s because the image is made of molecular silver ...

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum has bought a collection of early photographs, including very rare daguerreotypes from three early Black... Smithsonian Acquires Rare Antique Portraits By First ...

(Left) Unidentified artist, Untitled (family, painted backdrop), undated, tintype. Unidentified artist, Untitled (pin, woman in hat), undated, celluloid in metal setting. Smithsonian American Art ...