1853 | North America - USA![]() George N. Barnard, 1853, July 5, Fire in the Ames Mills, Oswego, New York, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, with applied colour, George Eastman Museum, | Two photographs are taken of the burning Mills at Oswego, New York by George N. Barnard who would become one of the great photographers of the American Civil War (1861-1865). |