James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas, 1850–55, Daguerreotype, Image: 2 11/16 × 2 3/16 in. (6.9 × 5.6 cm); visible, Photographs, Peter Welling (American, active c. 1850s), Between 1850 and 1859 Welling operated a daguerreotype portrait studio at 226 Bleecker Street in New York City. No ordinary likeness, this daguerreotype (a unique silver image on a copper plate) of James Hyatt served as the basis for an engraving in his textbook for schoolchildren 'The Elements of Chemistry' (1855)
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James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas, 1850–55, Daguerreotype, Image, 2 11/16, 3/16, 6.9, 5.6 cm, visible, Photographs, Peter Welling, American, active c., 1850s, 1850, 1859, operated, daguerreotype portrait, studio, 226 Bleecker, Street, New York, City, No ordinary, likeness, daguerreotype, unique silver, image, copper plate, Hyatt, served, basis, engraving, textbook, schoolchildren, Elements, Chemistry, 1855
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