[Woman holding baby (possibly postmortem)]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Woman holding baby (possibly postmortem)]
ca. 1856
Daguerreotype
Image: 8 x 7 cm, 1/6 plate
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2005
2005.0826.0002
Inscriptions interior of case: [printed advertisement for A.P. Critchlow & Co. Daguerreotype Cases]: A.P.C. & Co. are the original inventors of the Composition [bold] for the Union Case [bold], (so called) including all the various shades of color and fineness of texture peculiar to their manufacture and of the EMBRACING RIVETED HINGES, thus securing them from breaking out as do others that are inserted with or without a metal brace. Hinge patented Oct. 14, 1856
