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General Post Office fro – Historic Photo Reproduction

General Post Office fro, 1846 — historic photograph
General Post Office fro, 1846. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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The title names the General Post Office, a civic building that was a center of mail, government business, and daily city traffic in the 1840s, and the truncated "from" suggests the view was taken from a nearby vantage point, though the record does not say where. This daguerreotype dates to 1846, when the process produced a sharp, mirror-like image on silvered copper. Exposures were long, so moving pedestrians and carriages would have blurred or vanished, which often leaves early street views looking strangely empty. Surviving plates like this one are valuable records of how major city buildings looked in the decade before photography became fast and widespread.

Created / published1846
Original scan1,405 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference10_General_Post_Office_fro_1846

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