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Eclipse of the Sun, 1854. Photographed by William Langenheim (American, born Germany, Schoningen 1807-1874) and Frederick Langenheim (American, born Germany, Schoningen 1809-1879). William and Frederick Langenheim opened a daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia. Known for their technical innovations, the former journalists were not the city's first but were certainly its most celebrated photographers. On May 26, 1854, the Langenheim brothers made eight sequential photographs of the first total eclipse of the sun visible in North America since the invention of photography. Although six other daguerreotypists and one calotypist are known to have documented the event, only these seven daguerreotypes survive. In the northern hemisphere, the moon always shadows the sun from right to left during a solar eclipse; these images therefore seem odd because they are, like all uncorrected daguerreotypes, reversed laterally as in a mirror. It is noteworthy that these daguerreotypes are quite small, th...