Credit: Daguerreotype collection. The Library of Congress
On the back of this daguerreotype, which Robert Cornelius took of himself, he wrote, The first light picture ever taken, 1839.
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Robert Cornelius, self portrait, 1839.
Credit: Daguerreotype collection. The Library of Congress
On the back of this daguerreotype, which Robert Cornelius took of himself, he wrote, The first light picture ever taken, 1839.
