The First Photographs of Jerusalem

These photos come from 1844 and were taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey. They weren’t discovered until the 1920s, in a store room on Girault’s estate:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-first-photographs-ever-taken-jerusalem-180949473/?no-ist

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