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Closeup of Mother with Possibly Deceased Infant, 1/6th-Plate Daguerreotype, "Taken September 12th, 1854. The child was 28 days old."

The tinting of the infants cheeks and lips is really quite poingent if this is a post-mortem image.

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Uploaded on August 23, 2010
Taken on November 8, 2010