Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American inventor, 1866 (1955). Artist: Unknown

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American inventor, 1866 (1955). Morse was the father of American photography and Mathew Brady's first instructor in the art of daguerreotypy. He is better known as the inventor of Morse Code. From a wet plate taken when Morse was 75. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.

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Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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