Photography

James Ambrose Cutting

James Ambrose Cutting (1814–1867) was an American photographer and inventor, sometimes called the inventor of the Ambrotype photographic process. He grew up in poverty on a farm in Haverhill, New Hampshire. At age 28, he invented a new type of beehive in 1842, and on the money from selling his patents moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

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• ▸Giles Duley
• ▸Anticlea (plant)
• ▸History of Cumbria

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