Allen Phillips is a photographer and Imaging and Publications Manager at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. He has studied daguerreotypes for 45 years and is curator of the exhibition The Scenic Daguerreotype in America 1840-1860. Grant B. Romer served as director of the Photograph Conservation Department at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, from 1975 to 2005, specializing in the history of daguerreotypes, on which he lectures and consults internationally.