From the first generation of babies to be captured by photograph!
Average exposure time for a portraits in a well-lit studio during the Daguerrian era (1839-1860) was about 2-5 seconds, during which the sitter couldn't move or the picture would blur. Not bad for an adult sitter, but pretty well impossible for the little ones, let alone getting a pose, gaze, and preventing crying at parental separation. So just about every photograph from the time (well, most of the 19th century!) has a baby on a mother's lap. Sometimes she's a part of the picture and sometimes she's cropped out, or obscured, or even disguised as furniture!
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| George Eastman House |
By Southworth and Hawes, Boston, ca. 1850. Source
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| Library of Congress |
ca. 1855. Source
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| George Eastman House |
By Southworth and Hawes, Boston, ca. 1850. Source
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| Library of Congress |
By James Presley Ball, 1847-1860. Source
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| Library of Congress |
Mamie D. Lee, by W. L. Germon, ca. 1860. Source
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| Museum of Photographic Arts |
By Cathan, 1855. Source
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| George Eastman House |
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| George Eastman House |
By Southworth and Hawes, Boston, ca. 1850. Source
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| George Eastman House |
By Southworth and Hawes, Boston, ca. 1850. Source
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| George Eastman House |
By Southworth and Hawes, Boston, ca. 1850. Source
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