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Daily Dish

The First Window View

By The Daily Dish
July 11, 2010
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A reader writes:

A random thought, but your View From Your Window series honors what is arguably the first photograph ever taken: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s "View from the Window at Le Gras," in 1826.