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Description: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Untitled, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1905, Smithsonian Institution Archives"][/caption] In keeping with our summer travel theme, I began to investigate some of the ways in which photographers were first able to travel with their cameras. To give a brief background, the invention of photography in 1839 coincided with
Description: Cordell Dickerson, photographer in the tintype studio in the Arts and Industries Building museum shop, poses with camera and top hat, February 1, 1980, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 80-2045-29A.