biografia di Alexander Simon WOLCOTT (?-1844)

Death place: Stamford, CT

Profession: Daguerreotypist

Comments: One of the first Americans to make a daguerreotype, he was successful on Oct. 6, 1839, one month before Daguerre"s agent François Gouraud (see entry) came to the U.S. In 1840, he opened a portrait gallery with John Johnson in NYC.

Sources: Newhall, The Daguerreotype in America, 156

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