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Must-be-seen group of 12 charming quarter-plate daguerreotypes and one ambrotype of privileged
children, including mirror images of a young boy, whose portrait is rendered as a daguerreotype
and an ambrotype; an infant in a high chair; a portrait of “Mamie” (whose mother is surreptitiously
holding her steady); a portrait of a girl (who is holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a gilt-
highlighted pendant) and her brothers, one of whom is holding a net; a boy and his dog; one is in
a mother-of-pearl case and the remaining images in leather cases. 1850s
[4,000/6,000]