Washington, D. C.: National Portrait Gallery, September 22, 1978 to January 15, 1979 — Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes

1978. Softcover. Yellow ill. wraps. 378 pp. 110 bw plates. Organized by Harold Francis Pfister. Daguerreotypes of America's leading political and cultural figures, including Samuel Morse, Albert Gallatin, James Polk, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Thomas Sully, Margaret Fuller,Frederick Douglass, Horace Greeley, Henry Clay, and many others. VG-, light bowing, light wear and fading to cover edges .