Noun: daguerreotype du'ge-ru,tIp
- A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapour
"The museum displayed a collection of rare daguerreotypes from the 1840s";
- daguerrotype
Derived forms: daguerreotypes
Type of: exposure, photo, photograph, pic [informal], piccy [informal], picture
Encyclopedia: Daguerreotype