Daguerreotypes were sold in Britain throughout the 1840s and into the early 1850s. Access to the studios of photographers working with the daguerreotype process around 1850 would have been limited to the middle and upper classes.

When did daguerreotypes start?

August 19, 1839 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process in France. The invention was announced to the public on August 19, 1839 at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.

How long were daguerreotypes used?

English pronunciation; French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.

What is the oldest photograph in the world?

20 × 25 cm. Taken in 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, the worlds oldest surviving photograph was captured using a technique Niépce invented called heliography, which produces one-of-a-kind images on metal plates treated with light-sensitive chemicals.