The first photograph ever taken in Finland, 1842. It was taken in Turku, which is Finland’s oldest city.

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1. That building still there?

2. The photo is actually a mirror image, as early daguerrotypes used to be. So you’d have to mirror it to compare it with the buildings that exist along the same street (Uudenmaankatu) today.

   The only building seen in the photo that still exists is the Turku cathedral. Its tower can be seen in the background. The church had been damaged heavily in the Turku fire of 1827, and the top part of its main tower was rebuilt based on plans by the acclaimed architect Carl Ludvig Engel in the 1830s and early 1840s. As this photo was taken in 1842, the construction work was just being finished. The tower looks essentially the same today.

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