The Earliest Photographs of the United States of America: Part 2

Photography was introduced to the world in 1839 in France by Louis Daguerre and quickly spread throughout Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world. Surviving photographs taken of human subjects outside over the next decade in the United States in the 1840's are some of the most scarce in existence. These are all either daguerreotypes or salted paper prints from calotype negatives.