[zeestephen]

Did you colorize this?

That’s extraordinary.

Re: Shadows

Daguerre’s camera creates a mirror image.

The guy getting his boots cleaned is actually on the right side of the photo in the real world, and, presumably the shadows would be pointing to the right also.

[TChad]

Did you colorize this?

No. It came from the link below, which unfortunately goes to NPR:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/10/28/130898617/the-first-photo-af-a-human-or-two-humans-or-three