Other early photographers rented space in stores.

These itinerant photographers advertised in newspapers and also passed out handbills in small towns. The dag'typists, the most famous of whom was Mathew Brady, were well paid, earning as much as $100 a day, good money in pre-Civil War days. In return, they gave America a valuable photographic record of the country, including images of Florida's first governor, Andrew Jackson, President Abraham Lincoln and author Edgar Allan Poe. They also preserved the look of America, its houses, buildings and street scenes. The oldest photograph in the files of the Florida State Archives is a high-angle view of downtown Key West, probably shot from a tower in the area of Front and Simonton Streets. Paul's Episcopal Church appear in the black-and-white picture. Wright Langley, author, historian, preservationist, publisher and all-around authority on Key West history, located the photo in the hands of a collector in Rochester, N.Y., in 1997. A year later it was bought by the Florida State Library for $18,500. Langley dates the picture 'around 1850.'Īnother picture of Key West, also found in Rochester by Langley and his wife, Joan, was taken about the same time. The Langleys were attending a historical society meeting in Rochester, home of Eastman Kodak and the George Eastman House. There they learned of a collector named Bill Flaherty, who had an early Florida daguerreotype.

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