I was Grace Kelly and that nameless bride in the antique store daguerreotype and every woman who has ever been married wearing anything at all.

She said one image in the collection, of a lively dog who clearly did not wish to stay still for any length of time, was instead created using a method known as "daguerreotype".

Later, Campbell took Isaac to a shop to have a daguerreotype—a kind of early photograph—made in 1847.

It was a daguerreotype, an image imprinted on a sheet of silver-plated copper coated in light-sensitive chemicals.

The ambrotype, a popular and cheaper alternative to the daguerreotype in the 1850s, was made by creating a photographic negative on glass.