Jeremiah Gurney opened a daguerreotype studio/gallery in New York in 1840 and regularly exhibited his work at local fairs. In 1851 his work was featured at the international exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London. Gurney's Daguerrian Gallery was a large success and it featured galleries with portraits of "Distinguished Persons of the Age" who had been photographed at the studio. By 1853 after the Crystal Palace exhibition he began using paper processes almost exclusively.
