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Item no. C163 (cancel)
Type: cancel
Country: Germany
Date of use: 28 October 1990
Special cancel honoring Samuel Finley Breese MORSE (1791 – 1872), American scientist and artist (inventor of telegraph, portrait painter and art educator). He is also called “Father of American photography” as he was the first to bring daguerreotypy to America, first to open daguerreotype studio in the USA (with John Draper) and first to make daguerreotype image (of Unitarian Congregational Church of the Messiah, and surrounding buildings of Broadway in New York) in the USA.
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