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Item no. P918 (cover)
Type: cover
Country: Djibouti
Date of issue: 1 October 1987
Cover (FDC) with stamp and cachet 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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