It was only a decade prior to Marshall’s cry that Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype, and the French government purchased the patent rights to place the process in the public domain. The fever for photography, as Lebart notes, fortuitously overlapped with the fever for gold.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Treasure …
… Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
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