untitled (conical shaped structure under construction/destruction), Frederick Langenheim; William Langenheim

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Frederick Langenheim; William Langenheim, untitled (conical shaped structure under construction/destruction)
Frederick Langenheim; William Langenheim, untitled (conical shaped structure under construction/destruction)
Frederick Langenheim , William Langenheim
untitled (conical shaped structure under construction/destruction)
1849
Frederick Langenheim
1809–1879
William Langenheim
1807–1873
untitled (conical shaped structure under construction/destruction), 1849
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: calotype
Credit line: Long-term loan from the Robert Taft Collection of the Kansas State Historical Society
Accession number: L1980.002
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Constructions of Place: Architecture in Photography," Jan-1991, Erin Barnett This photograph, which probably depicts a cast-iron lighthouse under construcrion for Careyfort Reef, Florida, was made using William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype process. The Langenheim brothers purchased the rights to this British method but failed to popularize it in the United States.