Hillotype of Westkill Village, New York
Hillotype of Westkill Village, New York
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- Description (Brief)
- The Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American History holds an extraordinary series of early color photographs: sixty-two color daguerreotype plates made by Rev. Levi L. Hill in the early 1850s in Westkill, Greene County, New York, including this image of buildings in the town. This unique collection is what remains as evidence of the "Hillotypes" produced and experiments conducted by Hill to produce daguerreotype plates with natural colors. No greater controversy has ever divided the history of photography. Approximately 60 related articles appeared in journals between 1851 and 1856, as the photography community awaited the details on how to produce a Hillotype.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Photograph
- Hillotype
- photograph
- Date made
- ca 1850s-1860s
- maker
- Hill, Levi
- Place Made
- United States: New York, West Kill
- Physical Description
- copper plate (overall material)
- photographic emulsion (overall material)
- chemicals (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 16.51 cm
- ID Number
- PG.003999.01
- accession number
- 125759
- catalog number
- 3999.01
- Credit Line
- Dr. John B. Garrison
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Hillotypes
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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