Photography has always been practiced as a business, no less so by blacks who set up daguerreotype studios in cities or practiced their craft as itinerants.

He owned a daguerreotype studio in Hartford.

By 1850, there were over seventy daguerreotype studios in New York alone.

Ball opened a one-room daguerreotype studio in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1845.

Trained as a picture-framer, Strieger opened Odense's first daguerreotype studio in 1846.

After the end of the war in 1848, Bell returned to Philadelphia, and joined the daguerreotype studio of his brother-in-law, John Keenan.

In a short period of time, Plumbe established a string of daguerreotype studios and galleries, all bearing his name.

That prompted him to speculate that the photograph might have been made by Otis T. Peters, who had a daguerreotype studio a block or two away.

Visits sites prominent during Abraham Lincoln's tenure, including the daguerreotype studio of Mathew Brady.

Around 1857 he kept a daguerreotype studio on Winter Street in Boston; by 1858 he had moved to Commercial Street.