John Plumbe
American photographer
Died when: 47 years 319 days (574 months)Star Sign: Cancer
John Plumbe Jr. (occasionally Plumb;July 13, 1809 – May 29, 1857) was a Welsh-born American entrepreneurial photographer, gallerist, publisher, and an early advocate of an American transcontinental railroad in the mid-19th century.
He established a franchise of photography studios in the 1840s in the U.S., with additional branches in Paris and Liverpool.
He created a lithographic process for reproducing photographic images, called the "plumbeotype."
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