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| 24 October 1844 |  | Jules Itier (1802-1877) with the French customs service on a commercial mission to China takes what may be the earliest photographs of Macao [Macau] and wrote:
"I spent the last two days capturing the most interesting features of Macau on daguerreotype; the people on the streets respond with greatest kindness to all my demands, and many Chinese allowed photographs to be taken of them, but I had to show them the inside of the apparatus and the object reflected on the polished glass."
As the head of the French trade commission in China he takes a Daguerreotype of the signing of the Sino-French peace treaty. | | 24 October 1929 | | Stock Market Crash (USA) |
Yngve Baum (1945, 24 October - ) was born - Sweden. Swedish photographer.
Fred G. Korth (1902, 24 October - 1982, 2 May) was born - Germany, Guben. He moved to the USA in 1926. Originally he was a pictorialist and he won medals at international exhibitions.
Désiré Charnay (1828, 2 May - 1915, 24 October) died - France, Paris. French traveler and archaeologist who was active in Mexico during three periods (1857-1861, 1880-1883 and 1886). He is best known for his photographic documentation of archaeological sites. Between 1862-1863 he published Cités et ruines améMore...
Deborah Turbeville (1937, 6 July - 2013, 24 October) died - US, NY, Manhattan. |
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