Figure 23: Cincinnati Street
Maker: James Presley Ball (American, dates uncertain)
Sitter/Subject: unknown
Genre: city scene, commercial
Process: daguerreotype
Dimensions: half plate
Date: circa 1850
Collection: Greg French
Notes: By James Presley Ball, African-American photographer. Ball learned the daguerreian process in 1845, and then spent most of the next 25 years in Cincinnati, where his business was successful enough to allow him to travel to Europe in 1856.