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• 2025 Symposium & Photo Fair

  • Start
    September 25, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • End
    September 27, 2025
  •  
    10:00 PM
  • Location
    Hartford, CT

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  Whether this is your first Symposium or your 37th, you won’t want to miss Hartford 2025, a celebration of 19th-century photography bringing together collectors, historians, scholars, and museum professionals from around the world. You’ll join other lovers of daguerreotypes and other early photographs gathering at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut on Thursday, September 25, with events scheduled through Saturday, September 27. 

  Highlights include:

  • A festive opening reception, right at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
  • Talks by experts presenting important discoveries and new research, showing seldom-seen images and offering new insights into photography’s beginnings
  • A photo fair with veteran dealers and newcomers offering more daguerreotypes and 19th-century photographs than can be seen anywhere. Buy, sell, trade, or just look and learn – it’s an opportunity that comes along only once a year.
  • A banquet with a live auction featuring exceptional images and silent auction
  • Room-hopping to catch up with friends and see what’s on the market
  • And behind-the-scenes viewings of photography collections at leading cultural institutions, led by their curators

  Our Symposium hotel, the Hartford Marriott Downtown, is fully booked for Thursday and Friday nights, September 25 and 26, so we have arranged a group room block at the nearby DoubleTree by Hilton Hartford Downtown.

  To book your room at the DoubleTree...

  Call Hilton Reservations at (800) 754-7941 and ask for The Daguerreian Society group block, or use the direct booking link: https://group.doubletree.com/uinpex.

  Reserve your room early - the group rate is only available until August 13 (or until the block sells out)! You can always cancel up to 72 hours in advance without incurring a fee.

  To book a room at the Hartford Marriott Downtown (e.g., for Saturday night only), click here. 

  For further details, check out the Symposium & Photo Fair page!

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• 2025 Symposium Behind-the-Scenes Tours

  • When
    September 25, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Hartford, CT

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  Registration is now open for the Hartford Symposium's exclusive, behind-the-scenes institution visits on Thursday, September 25! 

  Instructions:
  

  To sign up, Symposium registrants must have a tour registration code (sent to all registrants via email).  

  Click on the Register button (located at the bottom of the left column) to begin the registration process for each tour.

  You will register for one tour at a time and may click on the Return to Event Registration on the confirmation page to register for additional tours.

  Symposium attendees may sign up for only two tours from the Tour 1-Tour 4 offerings. Each tour can accommodate a limited number of people, and is based on a first-come, first-served basis.  If you are attending with another Symposium registrant, you may add them as a guest to each tour registration. 

  A confirmation email will be sent for each tour registration.

  Attendees will be responsible for their own transportation in between venues. Click here for a map showing the location of the Hartford Marriott Downtown hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton Hartford Downtown hotel, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (WAMA), and Connecticut Museum of Culture and History.

  Please be sure to leave enough time for travel to each location and to pick up your Symposium badge at the Marriott prior to the tours. They will be required to gain entry to all tours and museums.

  Click here for detailed tour descriptions. 

  
  

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• 2025 Symposium – Virtual Experience

  • Start
    September 25, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • End
    September 27, 2025
  •  
    10:00 PM

  Can’t make it to Hartford? Be part of the Symposium from wherever you are!  Join us online for the Virtual Symposium Experience! The world’s biggest conference on 19th-century photography September 25–27, 2025 Click here to register As close as your computer (or tablet or smartphone) and available worldwide, you’ll enjoy: ALL of the 2025 Symposium Presentations livestreamed from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT  An exclusive guided tour of the Wadsworth’s exhibition The Scenic Daguerreotype in America 1840–1860, presented by curator Allen Phillips and collector Greg French Meet and greet attendees during the opening reception with special host Wes Cowan — auctioneer, historian, and Daguerreian Society VP Interact LIVE with your fellow Virtual Symposium attendees in EXCLUSIVE online sessions hosted by Smithsonian museum professional (and former Daguerreian Society Chair) Michelle Delaney and artist and photo educator Colleen Woolpert REGISTER NOW! View Tips for Registering For our international community and those unable to watch the livestream in real time, Symposium events will be recorded and available to registrants for convenient on-demand viewing. Online conference fee: USD $150. Daguerreian Society membership not required.

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