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History of photography
Child with Striped Dress (Younger Raab Child), autochrome photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Alexander Wolcott opened the earliest known photography studio in March 1840 in New York City. He operated this facility, which he called a "Daguerrean Parlor," to produce tiny portraits using a camera that utilized a mirror instead of a lens.1