First Photo Studio
It will soon be difficult to find a man who has not his likeness done by the sun
Today in 1840, Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson opened the first commercial photography studio in New York.
Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine described Wolcott as having “nearly revolutionized the whole process of Daguerre… [who] as is well known, could not succeed in taking likenesses from the life, and, in fact, but few objects were perfectly repres…
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