Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography...
Title: Entrance to the Port of Boulogne
Date: 1855
Location: France
Photographer: Edouard Baldus (1813-1889)
Process: salted paper print from paper negative
Note: Boulogne-sur-Mer was the arrival point for Queen Victoria's state visit in 1855. This print comes from an album that Baron James de Rothschild had commissioned for presentation to the imperial court on that occasion.
Source and information: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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