National Portrait Gallery
Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes
September 22, 1978 – February 4, 1979
See a major exhibit of daguerrotype portraits of 110 notable Americans drawn from gallery collections and on loan. Likenesses included are those of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, Albert Gallatin, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson and Nathanial Hawthorne's children, Samuel F.B. Morse and Horace Greeley.
Catalogues
Organized by Harold Pfister, Gallery staff member.
