[Kings Chapel Cemetery, Boston]

Creator

American Daguerreotypist · 1793–1881

In 1840, after witnessing a series of lectures and a demonstration of the daguerreotype process given by a licensed representative for Jacque-Louis Mandé Daguerre's process and equipment, Boston dentist Samuel Americanus Bemis bought a top-of-the-line daguerreotype camera for fifty-one dollars and twelve daguerreotype plates at two dollars each.. Four days after his purchase, Bemis made his first