letter
date: label: Date made
content: 1852-05
name: label: maker
content: Talbot, William Henry Fox
notes: label: Description
content: Holograph letter to Abbe Moigno, publisher of the review Cosmos. Lacock Abbey, May 1852. In French. "If you wish, I can furnish you with innumerable proofs of my priority of the photographic art on paper. I speak of articles published at the time." In the postscript Talbot speaks of visiting the year before with his friend Humboldt in Berlin, then 82 years old and enjoying "the most illustrous old age possible." (Translation and notes by David Lasswell, Parke-Bernet auction catalog.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.68.02
label: accession number
content: 274157
label: catalog number
content: 68.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter