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Old 01-08-2010, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by JHart View Post
The caption says 1917-1918, but it is more like 1817-1818 as he has a flintlock rifle on his shoulder
Photography hadn't been invented in 1818. According to Wikipedia "Louis Daguerre took the first ever photo of a person in 1839 when, while taking a daguerreotype (early type of photograph) of a Paris street, a pedestrian stopped for a shoe shine, long enough to be captured by the long exposure (several minutes)".
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