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Photography was introduced to the world in 1839 in France by Louis Daguerre and quickly spread throughout Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world. Surviving photographs taken of human subjects outside over the next decade in the United States in the 1840's are some of the most scarce in existence. This video attempts to assemble the largest collection of such photos taken between 1842 and the early 1850's.These are all either daguerreotypes or calotype salted paper prints.

Chestnut and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia, by George Read, 1842: http://www.geh.org/fm/mismis/htmlsrc2...

Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, possibly by Mathew Brady, 1843.

Chestnut Street shops, Philadelphia, by William G. Mason, 1843: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004...

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, by William G. Mason, 1843: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004...

Girard Bank, Nativist Riots, Philadelphia, by W. & F. Langenheim, 1844: http://explorepahistory.com/displayim...

Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hays, Camp Salubrity, Louisiana, 1845: http://www.vahistorical.org/collectio...

Grist mill, c. 1845: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/a...

"Plymouth and Kingston Express Wagon," Massachusetts, c. 1846.

Mexican-American War parade, Dayton, Ohio, c. 1846.

Mexican-American War parade, Exeter New Hampshire, c. 1846.

Mexican American War funeral, Wilmington, North Carolina, c. 1848: http://susan747.wordpress.com/2010/07...

Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, c. 1846: http://www.librarycompany.org/catchin...

Arch and 8th Streets, Philadelphia, 1847: http://libwww.freelibrary.org/diglib/...

Tom Thumb's visit, St. Louis, by Thomas Easterly, 1848: http://collections.mohistory.org/reso...

California pioneers in Columbus, Ohio, 1849: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustap...

Union Fire Company firefighters, St. Louis, by Thomas Easterly, 1848: http://collections.mohistory.org/reso...

Cincinnati riverfront view, by Charles Fontayne and William Porter, 1848: http://1848.cincinnatilibrary.org/sho...

Montgomery County Courthouse, Dayton, Ohio, 1848.

Confectionery shop, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustape...

California pioneers in Columbus, Ohio, 1849: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustap...

Carysfort Reef Florida lighthouse in Philadelphia, by Frederick and William Langenheim 1849: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ph...

Canal locks under construction, c. 1849: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/a...
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/a...

African American man and steer, c. 1850: http://www.germainewilliams.com/2013/...

Man on horse-drawn buggy with dog, c. 1849.

American Hotel fire aftermath, Buffalo, New York, 1850.

Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York, by Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 1850: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ss...

A busy Montgomery Street, San Francisco, by Frederick Coombs, 1850.

General Tom Thumb and his miniature carriage. (Correction: Tom Thumb is not in the photograph and it was actually taken sometime in the 1850's as it is an ambrotype.)

A group of men posing on a sidewalk, c. 1850.

Ohio Star newspaper buggy, Ravenna, Ohio, c. 1850: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustape...

Stagecoach service between Rome and Hamilton, New York, c. 1850.

Steam locomotive Tioga, Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, c. 1850: http://explorepahistory.com/displayim...

Man with an elephant, by Thomas Easterly, c. 1850: http://artblart.com/tag/daguerreotypi...

Horse-drawn sleigh, c. 1850.

Men posing with a prized bull, c. 1850: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/a...

College students portrait, Bethany College, West Virginia, c. 1850: http://www.finedags.com/archives/salo...

School group portrait, c. 1850.

Peddler's wagon, c. 1850.

A family in Cincinnati, by Charles Fontayne and William Porter, c. 1850.

People on a bridge over the Seneca River, Seneca Falls, New York c. 1850: http://americanart.si.edu/helios/amer...

Four men and a dog, c. 1850.

Union Hotel under construction, San Francisco, c. 1850: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/...

Independence Square entrance, Philadelphia, c. 1850: Library of Congress

Customs House, Philadelphia, by Frederick Langenheim, c. 1850:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/9940...