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Item no. S179 (stamp)
Type: stamp
Country: Mali
Date of issue: 5 June 1972
Catalog number: Scott 173
Stamp issued to commemorate the centenary of death of SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE (1791 – 1872), 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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