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America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839 - 1864
A searchable and browsable collection of hundreds of photographs taken between 1839 and 1864. The majority are portraits taken by the Mathew Brady studio. Includes photographic views of buildings and monuments in the Washington-Baltimore area, street scenes in Philadelphia, and "studio portraits by black photographers James P. Ball and Francis Grice." Includes background about the medium, a glossary, timeline, and a bibliography. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/

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