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April 20, 1839 Newspaper, THE NEW YORKER

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Post-Revolutionary War to Civil War

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The Daguerroscope - French Discovery The Pencil of Nature

April 20, 1839 Report on Daguerre in "The New-Yorker", New York, NY, Choice Very Fine.
11.75" x 9.25", complete 16-page newspaper. Disbound, with waterstains affecting the left side of the paper. Includes long and very detailed report on Page 2 on the invention of Photography by Daguerre in France. A great item for a serious collector of Photogrpahica. Long and very detailed accoutn of the new process of photography headlined: "New Discovery in the Fine Arts The Daguerroscope French Discovery The Pencil of Nature." Published by Horace Greeley, famous editor and founder of the New York Tribune.

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