[Silver foil on frosted glass, no visible image, drawing of a tooth, verso]

[Silver foil on frosted glass, no visible image, drawing of a tooth, verso]

Photograph

Samuel A. Bemis

Maker
American, 1793–1881

[Silver foil on frosted glass, no visible image, drawing of a tooth, verso]

ca. 1840
Daguerreotype on silver foil
Overall: 10.9 x 10.9 cm (4 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
1980.0807.0001
Inscriptions drawings of several teeth and "James" written in pencil on the underside of the piece of frosted glass that supports the square of silver foil
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