About me
Editing since 13 October 2004!
References for my convenience
Current interests
Past interests
Architecture and its styles, Atlas of world history and other neat maps, Certainty, the European Union and the Eurozone (and other attempts at economic integration), Existentialism, Megaregions of the United States, Metrication in the United States, Military-related articles (e.g. Badges of the United States Navy, List of United States Army careers, Uniforms of the United States Military, United States Army branch insignia), Penny debate in the United States, Philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics), Psychology, Sociology, and Unit Load Device
Jeremiah Gurney (1812–1895) was an American
daguerreotype photographer. Initially working in the jewelry trade in
Saratoga, New York, he took up photography after learning of daguerreotype from
Samuel Morse, moving to New York City where he began selling photographs alongside jewelry. He was one of the earliest photographers in the city, and may have been the owner of the first photographic gallery in the United States. Gurney took this self-portrait photograph around 1869, now in the collection of the
Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Photograph credit: Jeremiah Gurney; restored by Adam Cuerden