Senior Photograph Conservator Elena Bulat presented her work on June 20th, 2020 on the Edwin Forrest Mammoth Daguerreotype as part of The Institute of Conservation (ICON) Book and Paper group webinar series "Conservation Together at Home." 

This presentation focused on the conservation challenges and opportunities presented by a mammoth plate daguerreotype of American stage actor Edwin Forrest from the Theatre Collection at Houghton Library, Harvard University. Although mammoth daguerreotypes are very rare, the Theatre Collection has two of these photographs, both...