THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SAW a rapid improvement in photographic technology. In 1839, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype photo process, which utilized a silver plate and mercury to ...

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The first Kodak camera was a game-changer for the art of photography. Debuting in 1888, by modern standards the Kodak was impossibly clunky: large and boxlike, it lacked a viewfinder, offering only a ...

In this month’s edition of Today’s Collectibles, our readers shared a historically important original “Kodak” camera and a pair of sought-after midcentury modern dressers handed down in their families ...

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