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S.F. Beurling
Woman and child, Havana
1855, 23 May
Daguerreotype, 2/3 plate
Private collection of Jason David Wright
LL/76071
Beurling was a Swede who operated in Havana for 5 years in the 1850’s. He had previously been in New York, as an engineer and architect. He worked for a time with John Ericsson. There is no record of any photographic activity in NY. He went to Cuba as a railway engineer, and seems to have become a photographer there.
Scratched on the right side of the plate is “S. F. Beurling/ Stockholm,” and on the left side “Calle de O’Reillly No. 40 and “Habana 23 mayo 1855.”
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