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Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits


  • National Portrait Gallery 8th and G Streets NW Washington, DC 20001 (map)
Meade Brothers Studio Sixth-plate daguerreotype, c. 1850 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Emerson Lyons

Meade Brothers Studio
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Emerson Lyons

Exhibition through June 13, 2021

NOTE: The National Portrait Gallery will reopen on May 14, 2021, Wednesday–Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–7 p.m. Until then, please view exhibit online here.

This exhibition of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes from the 1840s and 1850s features portraits of early feminist icons.