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A Krzysztof K. Słowiński Collection

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Item no. s180 stamp

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Type: stamp
Country: Cambodia
Date of issue: 23 APril 1992
Catalog number: Scott 1220 (of 1218 – 1222)

Stamp (of 5-stamp set commemorating inventors and builders) issued to honor 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.

Item no. S180 (stamp)