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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Huntingtreasure, post: 337980, member: 6868&quot;]Billyd3us,</p><p>This is part of an article about Stauntons camera museum:</p><p><br /></p><p>By the time photography had reached the end of its first decade Staunton had its first permanent photographer. R.J. Rankin opened his studio in the city in 1850, taking daguerreotypes, photos made by exposing a chemical coated copper plate. Staring back from the rows of daguerreotypes in the case that displays Rankin&#039;s work are Staunton citizens in their Sunday best from 170 years ago. Eight years after opening his shop, Rankin died of mercury poisoning, a fatal side effect of the chemicals used in early photography development.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe you could contact them about you photo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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