STYLIZED PHOTOGRAPH OF A PHOTOGRAPH OF A DAGUERREOTYPE. As of this date, the above 18•• daguerreotype has not been disassembled. This procedure to be conducted later by a qualified authority, with the entirety of the endeavor carefully filmed. Consequently, as of this date, the glass on the front of the intact daguerreotype has not been internally cleaned. This condition currently impedes the clarity of the provided images but does not preclude the identification of the persons photographed. Additionally, the images on this website were taken with an Android phone camera and are consequently compiled on JPEG and MPEG files. These files use a form of lossy compression to reduce their storage size, resulting in a portion of their digital information being discarded. When an image or a video is respectively converted to a JPEG or an MPEG file, and the file is then transferred and uploaded to a website, it undergoes further degradation in clarity and overall quality. This occurs because the described digital processing is designed to optimize storage and loading speeds rather than maintain photographic quality. Again, this condition presently impedes the clarity of the provided images but does not preclude the identification of the persons photographed.
