[apillar]

There are some daguerreotypes of the last few surviving Revolutionary war veterans taken in the early 1840’s and the first presidential photo of an aging Andrew Jackson. The president was so impressed with the daguerreotype process that he had the federal government pay to have daguerreotype made of the veterans and Jackson. The process was so expensive at the time that it cost nearly $10,000 per daguerreotype in today’s money

[roses of sharon]

Thanks for that info apillar...I didn’t know about that price tag! Wow.

[Bhoy]

“...the first presidential photo of an aging Andrew Jackson. The president was so impressed with the daguerreotype process that he had the federal government pay to have daguerreotype made of the veterans and Jackson. The process was so expensive at the time that it cost nearly $10,000 per daguerreotype in today’s money.”

So the Fed was ripping the taxpayers even in those days.

[Yardstick]

Here are a few of those daguerreotypes of Revolutionary War veterans that you mentioned:

http://www.americanrevolution.org/last%20men/lastmen3.html

Amazing to see these and think of how they were there at the very beginning.

[thecodont]

There are some daguerreotypes of the last few surviving Revolutionary war veterans taken in the early 1840’s

That is so cool!

and the first presidential photo of an aging Andrew Jackson.

Even cooler!

But then, isn't there some overlap between the two groups? I understand Andrew Jackson enlisted in the Revolutionary War as a thirteen-year-old.

[x_plus_one]

The most interesting thing in the picture from 1838 is the number of chimneys on each house and in total. The windows are open so it is not winter time. Coal and wood were the fuels for heating and they produce large amounts of smoke. The density of chimney stacks must have produced thick smokey smog save for warmer months. This is the time period of Charles Dickens who would have lived less than 200 miles to the north in London.. The picture looks Dickensian.