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OH Perry, Photographer Part II

What fascinates me about doing genealogy is trying to tease out what “really happened.” What really happened, of course, is lost, filtered, and in many cases impossible to determine. That doesn’t stop me. O. H. Perry is one example of … Continue reading

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OH Perry, photographer

Photography in America began in the 1830s and 1840s, shortly after the invention of the daguerreotype process in France. This new process allowed for the creation of highly detailed images on a silver-plated copper sheet. The daguerreotype process was quickly … Continue reading

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