1856                Address Unknown, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica, and who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business.

Duperly was born in Paris, but was in Jamaica in the 1830s and produced a lithograph of the 1831 Baptist War and the emancipation celebrations in Kingston in 1838. He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s. During the 1840s he published a collection of daguerreotypes of Jamaica.[1]

He established Adolphe Duperly and Sons, which became the most successful photography business in Jamaica. The company was continued after his death by his son, Armond, and grandson Théophile.[2] The companies original premises was destroyed by fire in 1907. From 1909 their studio was 85 King Street, Kingston.[3]

1856 November 5.  New Orleans Daily Crescent.  (New Orleans, Louisiana.)  November 5, 1856, Vol. IX, No. 209, P. 2.

We take pleasure in announcing the arrival of Mr. Adolphe Duperly in this city from the West Indies.  Mr. Duperly is an artist of great talent, who obtained the prize medal of the exhibition of Paris in 1856, for his lithographic and photographic portraits, as well as his miniatures and oil paintings.  We understand Mr. D. intends sojourning in New Orleans, if sufficient aid is rendered him.

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[1]  RCS Photographers Index. Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 6 January 2016.

[2] Wright, Colin. “Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica”. http://www.bl.uk. British Library. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[3] Adolphe Duperly and Sons”. archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk. Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 22 August 2020.