Item 37148 - Benjamin Franklin Upton daguerreotype, ca. 1855

Item 37148 - Benjamin Franklin Upton daguerreotype, ca. 1855
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Item 37148
Benjamin Franklin Upton daguerreotype, ca. 1855
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Benjamin Franklin Upton made this daguerreotype of an unidentified man, ca. 1855.

Upton was a daguerreian and inventor who worked in Bath from 1855-1856 and was also listed as working in Chicago, Illinois; and St. Anthony, Minnesota.

In 1853 he received a patent for a mercury bath for daguerreotyping, and in 1854, a patent for an apparatus for polishing daguerreotype plates.

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