Daguerreotype portrait of a sailor smoking a pipe in Cairo, Egypt, taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1843-1844.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a sailor smoking a pipe in Cairo, Egypt, taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1843-1844.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Daguerreotype portrait of a young Nubian man possibly selling food in Aswan, Egypt, 1844. By French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.
Source: Gallica Digital Library.
Daguerreotype portrait of a Jewish Algerian woman, 1844.
Source: Sotheby’s.
Daguerreotype portrait of members of a literary society in Groveland, Massachusetts, c. 1844.
Source: Sotheby’s.
Daguerreotype self-portrait of German photographer Philipp Graff, 1844.
Source: National Gallery of Canada.
Daguerreotype portrait of Louis Daguerre, c. 1844. By Pierre-Ambrose Richebourg.
Daguerreotype portrait of the Cresson family, March 1844.
Calotype photograph of a group of people posing near the Royal High School in Edinburgh, Scotland, c. 1845. By David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.
Daguerreotype of an unidentified man steadying a prized horse named Wildfire, c. 1844. By Louis-Auguste Bisson.
Daguerreotype view of boats in a harbor on the island of Taipa in Macau, October 1844. One of the first photographs taken in Macau. By Jules Itier.
Daguerreotype portrait of a beggar in Jerusalem, c. 1844. By Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.
Daguerreotype portrait of a woman with a hookah in Cairo, c. 1843. By Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey.
A large crowd in the Place de la Concorde crossing the Pont de la Concorde bridge over the River Seine during an unknown event, Paris, c. 1843. By Marie Charles Isidore Choiselat and Stanislas Ratel.
Mounted guards escorting carriages over the Pont Royal bridge during a parade, Paris, 1844. By Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat.
"North side of Chestnut Street, between Second Street and Third Street." A group of men are visible posing on the sidewalk, Philadelphia, c. 1842.
"North-east corner of Third & Dock Street. Girard Bank, at the time the latter was occupied by the military during the riots May 9, 1844."
Militiamen assembling in front of the Girard Bank building in order to restore order during the anti-Catholic Nativist Riots, Philadelphia, 1844. By Frederick and William Langenheim. Believed to be the earliest news photograph taken in the United States.