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1865
It may not be generally known that Munich is at the head of all cities in the world for photography

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W. Pembroke Fetridge Harper`s Hand-book for Travellers in Europe and the East, Fourth Year (New York: Harper & Brother, 1865), p.473.
 
It may not be generally known that Munich is at.the head of all cities in the world for photography. Such, nevertheless, is the fact. All branches of the arts, however, are carried to a greater state of perfection here than elsewhere; and the photographs of Munich are as far in advance of the photographs of Paris, as those of New York are to those of London. The great establishment of Munich is that of Joseph Albert, 10 Carlstrasse, photographer to the royal court of Bavaria, who was chosen by the Emperor of Russia to go to St. Petersburg to "take" the royal family. His work is the very perfection of the art, mostly by a new process called chromophotography, which combines the most exact likeness with the softness and finish of an ivory miniature, and the plastic roundness of an oil painting. Albert, with Piloty and Lochle, have the exclusive privilege of taking photographic copiesofthe pictures in the Munich galleries, specimens of which may here be seen. Photographs of the gems of the galleries, taken from the original pictures, have been published in four large quarto volumes by this privileged house: a few copies only have reached the United States, as they are very expensive. One set is in the possession of Jas. Lennox, Esq., another in that of Robt. L. Stuart, Esq., N. York. Notice Piloty's great picture, Nero after the burning of Rome, and portraits of the Emperor of Austria, eight feet high. This we suppose is the largest photographic estalv lishment on the Continent. From ten to twelve operators are continually kept going. There are three large saloons, sixty rooms, and seventy men employed.
 
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