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Unidentified Woman
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Sixth-plate daguerreotype. Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified woman, facing front. She is sitting in a chair, with one hand in her lap, and the other arm resting on a cloth-covered table, on which a book is resting. Hand-coloring on cheeks.
circa 1850-1859
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W01274A
WHi 121491
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