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Title: Arsenal and Cupola, Philadelphia Central High School
Date: October 1839
Location: U.S.
Photographer: Joseph Saxton (1799-1873)
Process: daguerreotype
Note: This is the earliest surviving photo taken in the United States. Saxon used a cigar box, glass lens and silver-coated, metallic plate to capture it. Exposure time was 10 minutes.
Source and information: Wikimedia
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