<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Vail" class="extiw" title="en:Alfred Vail">Alfred Lewis Vail</a> (1807–1859), American inventor. Copy of 1853 Daguerrotype, published in 1912. Original owned by his son, James Cumming Vail, then residing in Morristown, New Jersey.
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