This was a very busy street, but due to the slow speed of the photograph meant everyone else moved too fast to be recorded except for the relatively stationary shoeshiner and shoeshinee in the bottom left corner.
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Thank you for sharing it and for that neat explanation, OP! This is a beautiful picture.
![Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre [1838] (oldest photo of a person)](https://quokk.au/pictrs/image/9ce6a635-2920-4d56-b89c-82e4972a78ba.jpeg){kind=link}