On March 4th, 1857, while the Capitol building was still under construction, James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th President of the United States of America. The 1850s were a significant period in photography. The wet collodion process was invesnted in 1851. It gave photographers the ability to make direct contact prints from glass negatives. […]
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