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Unidentified Photographer

ca. 1840
lithographic view for the polyorama panoptique with applied color
14.5 x 20.0 cm. (slide size)
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
77:0562:0055

NOTES: Cataloged 9/89, SB. The "toy diorama portatifs" or portable dioramas, are the only suviving indication of what Daguerre's original diorama might have looked like and how the lighting might have worked, although greatly reduced in scale. These "polyorama panoptiques" slides were used in the toy diorama. (Buerger) Each slide shows two scenes. One when light is reflected and the other when the back is lifted and light is transmitted.

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