"First Seen: Photographs of the World's Peoples, 1840-1880" is an extraordinary exhibition of 250 photographic portraits from the dawn of the modern era. Taken by celebrated professionals and gifted amateurs on tour and at home, these compelling images offer our earliest glimpses of men and women on every continent except Antarctica. First Seen offers a remarkable collection of 19th-century images made in the first four decades following the invention of photography in 1839.

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