Lemuel Shaw, ca. 1850, Daguerreotype, x cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.), Photographs, Albert Sands Southworth (American, West

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Lemuel Shaw, ca. 1850, Daguerreotype, x cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.), Photographs, Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811–1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts), Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808–1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire), The Boston partnership of Southworth and Hawes produced the finest portrait daguerreotypes in America for a clientele that included leading political, intellectual, and artistic figures. This first photographic process, invented by Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), spread rapidly around the world after its public presentation in Paris in 1839

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Size: 3715px × 4838px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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