Although not the first photographic technique, on Jan. 9, 1839, the dageurreotype process was announced to the world. The dageurreotype became the first commercially viable photographic process and the first to permanently record and fix an image with exposure time compatible with portrait photography.
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Your date has a minor typo, does it not?
Thanks Mark. If I recall, lots of the photos from the American civil war were dageurreotypes.
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