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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre 
Postage stamp showing Daguerre, Grenada 
n.d. 
  
Postage stamp 
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada 
 
LL/35417 
  
The clothes are accurate, but Daguerre looks more like a native of this Caribbean Island than the inventor of photography as we know him.
 
This illustration was included in the lecture "The many faces of Daguerre" presented by Matt Isenburg at the Daguerreian Society Symposium (2009). 
 

 
  
 
  
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