Item no. P3684b (cover)
Type: cover
Country: India
Date of use: 19 August 2019
Commemorative cover (back of) with special cancel honoring WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY. This day falls each year on 19th August.
Photography Day - August 19 - is the date the French government handed over the invention of the technology of the first method of photography (daguerreotype) to the world in 1839. Its inventor received a life annuity from the government.