. - the joseph saxton gallery of photography is located in the a. h. wilson on the natural historic registery. we're situated in the midst of the arts district in downtown canton in its historic district. my father and i drove by this building 20 years ago and my father pointed at it and said lots of interesting things happened here. it was a very successful cadillac dealership in its early years and the fact that it's got an open span free space here makes it very suited to a gallery space. joseph saxton is my he took the first daguerreotype in the united states in philadelphia in 1839. we decided that it was fitting that he be commemorated by naming the gallery in his name. a deguerreotype is one of the earliest forms of photography. it's a single plate. they develop the plate and it became a single image. they're very durable. the nineteenth century room is really an exciting room. we have a range of deguerreotypes and so on. my conception of the nineteeth century room is that it demonstrates the roots of photography and how photography evolves thro