Robert Cornelius Daguerotypes

There is a fresh effort now to make sure that the images cornelius made in those early days of daguerreotype experimentation are preserved. A woman named rachel wetzel, who's a photograph conservator for heconservation centre for art and historic artifacts,. And whetseis on a mission to track down all of the cornelius daguereotypes she can and insure that they're preserved. The national endowment for the humanities gave funding for a two year research project with the goal of documenting all robert cornelius portraits. He also has some listener mail for us about our recent episode on wilson a bentley. Ye we had a lot of people