daguerreotypist

• It is perhaps a pity that Hawthorne should not have proposed to himself to give the old Pyncheon-qualities some embodiment which would help them to balance more fairly with the elastic properties of the young daguerreotypist--should not have painted a lusty conservative to match his strenuous radical. —  Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
• But he had scuffled and edged his way in the thin air of Connecticut as errand-boy, daguerreotypist, teacher, doctor;--so he came into the Gurney garden that night, shrewd, defiant, priding himself on detecting shams. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
• The cabinet are behind, as if arranged for a daguerreotypist, Stanton, short and quicksilvery, in long goatee and glasses, in stunted contrast to the tall and snow-tipped shape of Mr. Welles with the rest, practical and attentive, and at their side is Secretary Chase, high, dignified, and handsome, with folded arms, listening, but undemonstrative, a half-foot higher than any spectator, and dividing with Charles Sumner, who is near by, the preference for manly beauty in age. —  The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
• Every word Where did I leave off It was where--where the"--and Richard knitted his brows in the vain effort to remember--"where the young daguerreotypist, what's-his-name, took up his residence in the House of the Seven Gables No, sir! —  The Stillwater Tragedy
• "It will suit my purpose still better to see the original," replied the daguerreotypist coolly. —  House of the Seven Gables

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