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History Beach Towel featuring the photograph First Solar Eclipse Daguerrotypes, 1854 by Metropolitan Museum of Art

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First Solar Eclipse Daguerrotypes, 1854 Beach Towel

Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

$40.00

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Our luxuriously soft beach towels are made from brushed microfiber with a 100% cotton back for extra absorption.   The top of the towel has the image printed on it, and the back is white cotton.   Our beach towels are available in two different sizes: beach towel (32" x 64") and beach sheet (37" x 74").

Don't let the fancy name confuse you... a beach sheet is just a large beach towel.

Design Details

Eclipse of the Sun, 1854. Photographed by William Langenheim (American, born Germany, Schoningen 1807-1874) and Frederick Langenheim (American, born... more

Care Instructions

Machine wash cold and tumble dry with low heat.

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1 - 2 business days

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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...

 

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