NEW YORK (AP) - A very early photograph of New York City in the 1840s has sold for $62,500.
The photo depicting Manhattan’s Upper West Side as open countryside was sold Monday at Sotheby’s auction house.
The photo is a daguerreotype, an early form of photography that was used mainly for portraits. It is believed to date from 1848 and shows a white house with shutters, a grassy hillside and a horse-drawn carriage.
Sotheby’s said the photo was recently discovered in New England. Neither the buyer nor the seller was identified.
The auction house estimated the pre-sale value of the daguerrotype at $50,000 to $70,000.
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