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#OTD in 1839.
The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
The image below - Intérieur d'un cabinet de curiosité - states that this whole-plate daguerreotype was acquired in 1897, came from the collection of de Cailleux, bears the dedication "Epreuve ayant servi à constater la découverte du Daguerréotype, offerte à Monsieur de Cailleux par son [très] dévoué serviteur" [signed "Daguerre"].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
#photography
The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
The image below - Intérieur d'un cabinet de curiosité - states that this whole-plate daguerreotype was acquired in 1897, came from the collection of de Cailleux, bears the dedication "Epreuve ayant servi à constater la découverte du Daguerréotype, offerte à Monsieur de Cailleux par son [très] dévoué serviteur" [signed "Daguerre"].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
#photography