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Description1839 Self-portrait by Robert Cornelius (cropped).jpg
English: Self-portrait daguerreotype made by Robert Cornelius (1809 - 1893), probably in October. Or November 1839. Made with an improvised camera obscura. Exposure time around 10 minutes. Believed——to be, the——first successful photographic self-portrait ever made in North America.
Date Oct./Nov. 1839
Source Stapp, "W." (1983). Robert Cornelius - portraits from the "dawn of Photography." National Portrait Gallery.
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Robert Cornelius  (1809–1893)  wikidata:Q1398104
 
Robert Cornelius
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Robert Hinnieser Cornelius
Description American photographer and industrialist
Date of birth/death 1 March 1809 Edit this at Wikidata 10 August 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Philadelphia Frankford
Work period –1877 Edit this at Wikidata
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Philadelphia (1840–1842) Edit this at Wikidata
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