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The pictures in this collection are some of the earliest known portrait photographs to ever be taken. The subjects in the photos are older and no doubt wealthy, as photography was expensive and only accessible to those in a good financial position.

The incredible set of images, many of them taken by the legendary early American photographer Mathew Brady, show a selection of various portraits taken as daguerreotype images. Many of these people were born in the 1700s and some of them even lived through the American Revolutionary War.

Other portraits come without any accompanying documentation so it can be very difficult to identify the subject or the photographer.

The technique used to capture these images was called daguerreotype and it was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.
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