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SCOUT· 26%29m·2023-02-10·HistoryThe First Woman Ever Photographed
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Dorothy Catherine Draper is a truly forgotten figure in American history. She was the first woman to ever sit for a photograph — a daguerrotype, in the year 1840, upon the rooftop of the school which would become New York University. Catherine was the older sister of professor John William Draper, later the founder of…
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