Enthält im Anhang Auszüge aus der ital. Übersetzung der Daguerre-Schrift: “Descrizione pratica del nuovo istromento chiamato il daguerrotypo... prima traduzione italiana. Roma: Alessandro Monaldi 1840”.

This well-made catalog includes essays about the local Pachinger collection, on the numerous daguerreotypes in this collection, on early paper photography portraiture (calotypes, c-d-v) and explanations of photography’s early processes. A remarkable number of calotype portraits by Alois Löcherer has been reproduced.