{"id":1799,"date":"2018-12-07T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2018-11-22T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:25:53","slug":"christmascountdown-daguerrotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2018\/12\/07\/christmascountdown-daguerrotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daguerrotypes &#8211; #ChristmasCountdown Door no. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncllibspeccoll\"><strong>#ChristmasCountdown<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Door No. 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1801\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1801\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Daguerrotype of The American Falls\" width=\"730\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-1-2.jpg 730w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-1-2-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-1-2-395x300.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daguerrotype of The American Falls, 1840 (Daguerrotypes, DAG\/2)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1800\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1800\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Horseshoe Falls, part of Niagra Falls Daguerrotype \" width=\"729\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-2.jpg 729w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2018\/11\/default-2-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daguerrotype of The Horseshoe Falls, part of Niagra Falls, 1740 (Daguerrotypes, DAG\/5)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Daguerrotypes were an early form of photography. They were produced using an early photographuc process involving an iodine-sentitised silvered plate and mercury vapour. This photographic method does not permit reproduction so the images are unique.<\/p>\n<p>These particular ones are significant as they are some of the first known images of the Clifton Hotel and Niagra Falls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can see other Daguerrotypes of Niagra Falls on <a href=\"https:\/\/cdm21051.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p21051coll22\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CollectionsCaptured<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ChristmasCountdown Door No. 7 Daguerrotypes were an early form of photography. They were produced using an early photographuc process involving an iodine-sentitised silvered plate and mercury vapour. This photographic method does not permit reproduction so the images are unique. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2018\/12\/07\/christmascountdown-daguerrotypes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[403,166,404],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-daguerrotypes","tag-niagra-falls","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}