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Show First Person Photographed. Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, who died tho other day, nged 95, was said to bo the first person who over sat for a photogrnph. Sho posed for her brother. Dr. John W. Draper, who had discovered n process by which a daguerreotype da-guerreotype could bo made In n few minutes. The photograph was made In 1S39, when Miss Draper was known in New York society ns "Dolly" Draper, Dra-per, and the picture, with the statement state-ment that the subject had to pose "only nbout lx minutes," created a se'ns;on In artistic circles. The original orig-inal picture becamo the possession of lrd H:rschell, whose heirs still ret-In It. |