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ca. 1843, [Self-portrait of Robert Cornelius with laboratory instruments], Robert Cornelius
via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Image Archive
ca. 1850’s. [medical daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with a lump on his head]
via Ebay Auctions
ca. 1845-50, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman either deceased or closely approaching death with a hand upon his lap], attributed to Jean Victor
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a casually posed gentleman in a white suit], William and Frederick Langenheim
ca. 1856, [daguerreotype portrait of oarsman John D. Champlin, wearing uniform of the Thulia Boat Club]
ca. 1854, [daguerreotype portrait of a young lady with a black tailed deer]
via the J. Paul Getty Museum, Cased Objects, Photographic Collections
ca. 1850, “The Staff of ‘The Express’”, [daguerreotype portrait of eight men, six gathered around two at a table]
ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of Rosaline Holmes Harrison with her deceased child], Jaquith
via the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Batcheler, Hartshorne, and Sahlin families Papers Collection
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