Dorothy Catherine Draper
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Dorothy Catherine Draper was an artist, educator and chemist notable for being the subject of the earliest existent daguerreotype portrait made in the United States.
Daguerreotype of Draper taken by her brother John William Draper, c. 1840
Daguerreotype believed to show Dorothy Catherine Draper (center) in December 1839, taken by John William Draper. The man is probably Drapers assistant, William Henry Goode.
Dorothy Catherine Draper in the 1890s
John William Draper
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John William Draper was an English polymath: a scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with pioneering portrait photography and producing one of the firs
Dorothy Catherine Draper
…She had two sisters, Elizabeth Johnson and Sarah Ripley, and a brother, the scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian, and photographer John William Draper. Her father often needed to move the family while serving various congregations throughout England. Following her father's death in Kent in February…
John William Draper, c. 1879
Daguerreotype from a group of portraits believed to have been made by Draper in 1839. It is one of the few early portraits which required the subject to keep his eyes closed due to the bright light.
The earliest surviving daguerreotype of the Moon by Draper (1840)