New Historic Site!

Using Google Maps,  I was also curious to see if I could relocate the corner of rue du Temple and boulevard du Temple where Daguerre made his 1838 photograph "Boulevard du Temple".

Based on Nicholas Jenkin's excellent research:
http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/archives/2007/08/traces.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/archives/images/boulevard%20map.jpg
http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/archives/2007/08/at_the_corner.html

Here is what I believe the location looks like today.  There should be a plaque marking the location of the first person recorded in a photograph, probably near where the carousel is now:

Google Street View

Chris McCaw

Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP#317, 2009, 8x10
"Sunburn",  A project taking photography back to its primal beginnings
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