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Gift of Elizabeth W. Temple, 2011.63.99  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Napoleon Sarony
Gift of Elizabeth W. Temple, 2011.63.99 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Napoleon Sarony

American, 1821 - 1896
BiographyNapoleon Sarony was born in Quebec in 1821. He moved to New York in 1836 and worked for Currier & Ives before forming his own lithography business with James Major. In 1867, in left the lithography business to open a photography studio, soon becoming a promnent and successful portrait photographer. He died in 1896.
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