Friday, June 15th, 2018 - Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
The 2018 installation of the Daguerreian Gallery celebrates the National Portrait Gallery’s golden anniversary by highlighting fifty years of daguerreotype collecting by the museum. Included will be portraits of such iconic figures as activist and reformer Dorothea Dix, entrepreneur and showman P. T. Barnum with Tom Thumb, Seneca Chief Governor Blacksnake, U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, and artist Alfred Waud.
Daily 11:30am - 7pm
Free admission
National Portrait Gallery
8th and F Streets NW
Washington, DC
38.8978609, -77.0229419
Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting