This pair of daguerreotypes in a red leather case are Preston’s oldest surviving photographs. They were taken by Silas Eastham in 1846 and the people in the images are Mrs Anne Agnes Crofton and Mr John Addison. The Addison family were solicitors in Preston. Other related early photographic formats include Ambrotype and Tintype portraits, and the Harris Library collections hold a copy of Henry Fox Talbot’s book on photography, Pencil of Nature.