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I’m Still Here: Saving The Work Of Robert Cornelius

Rachel Wetzel, photograph conservator for Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, holds up a timeline of daguerreotypes by Robert Cornelius. Wetzel is determined to track down and preserve what remains of the groundbreaking photographer’s body of work. | Photo: Joseph G. Brin

All within a stone’s throw on the dirt and cobblestone streets of 19th century Philadelphia, a hotbed of art, science, and photography held sway. One enterprising young man, Robert Cornelius, a revered portrait photographer, was caught up in the ferment. In 1839, Cornelius, a metallurgist and amateur chemist, took a picture of himself in the yard behind his family’s gas lighting business at 710 Chestnut Street. It is the oldest photographic portrait of a human and the first self portrait ever taken with a makeshift camera. One Philadelphia conservator, Rachel Wetzel, is on the hunt to find and preserve what remains of the groundbreaking photographer’s brief career.

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In the late summer, 1839, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre bestowed the gift of photography upon the world. Although the origins of photography remain murky and the subject of much debate, there is little doubt that Daguerre's English-language publication, An Historical Account and a Descriptive Account of the Various Processes of the Daguerreotype and the Dioramasparked enormous interest among Americans and induced many to explore the arcana of photographic chemistry. It was hailed as truly one of the technological marvelsof the age.

News of Daguerre's publication arrived in the United States in late August or early September, 1839, and several Philadelphians set out immediately to replicate Daguerre's process. One of the oldest surviving images from North America is a view of Central High School in Philadelphia, taken by Joseph Saxton on September 25, 1839, and a handful of others are known to have been taken later that year. In October, a young manufacturer of lamps, Robert Cornelius, worked with Saxton to learn the basics of the daguerreian process and soon began to .

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Robert Cornelius

American photography pioneer (1809–1893)

Robert Cornelius
Cornelius' 1839 self-portrait
Born	(1809-03-01)March 1, 1809 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	August 10, 1893(1893-08-10) (aged 84) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting place	Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupations	Photographer businessman manufacturer
Spouse	Harriet Comly (m. 1832; died 1884)
Children	8

Robert Cornelius (; March 1, 1809^[1] – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a significant achievement for self-portraiture. He operated some of the earliest photography studios in the United States between 1840 and 1842 and implemented innovative techniques to significantly reduce the exposure time required for portraits.

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