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50 James P. Freret, 1838 Lithograph; 8 x 8 in. The Historic New Orleans Collection COLONIAL THROUGH ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA JULES LION b. 1810, France d. 1866, New Orleans, Louisiana Jules Lion, a French-born mulatto, was one of the most distinguished AfricanAmerican artists in antebellum New Orleans. A master lithographer, he executed a series of portraits of Louisianans that remain popular as reprints today. In 1836 or early 1837, he immigrated to New Orleans, where he was hired for a new portrait lithography shop operated by the New Orleans Bee, a leading bilingual newspaper. In 1840, he introduced the daguerreotype process, the forerunner of photography, in New Orleans, only the second city in the United States (after New York City) to adopt this technology. PB  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=481 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=481

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