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[Gene C]

Question for anyone - Who were the prominent photographers at the time of Lincoln's inauguration in Washington DC?
Would it be safe to believe that only an experienced and prominent photographer would be given the responsibility of taking such a historic photograph?
Would the prominent photographer in question still be using the daguerreotype process by 1861? Other photographs of the inauguration and of Lincoln from 1861 do not seem to be daguerreotypes -

https://www.google.com/search?q=1861+ina...rc=_&vet=1

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ph...am_Lincoln

The name "daguerreotype" correctly refers only to one very specific image type and medium, the product of a process that was in wide use only from the early 1840s to the late 1850s. - Wikipedia