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Photo Archive: Philadelphia (1849)
The Merchant’s Exchange. Calotype. Signed and sent to Fox Talbot as a sample.
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Photo Archive: Edgar Allan Poe (1848)
Daguerreotype. Taken a year before the poet died. Poe was much enamored of the daguerreotype. In 1840 he wrote, “In truth the dag. plate is infinitely more accurate in its presentation than any painting by human hands.”
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