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The group portrait is likely a study of recent graduates of a small school or guild. A copy daguerreotype of twenty individual images, it is a Whitmanesque composite portrait of a slice of American society in the 1850s.
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Title: [Copy Daguerreotype of Twenty Portrait Daguerreotypes in a Wall Frame]
Artist:
Unknown (American)
Date: 1850s
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions:
14 × 10.8 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
Case: 2.3 × 15.1 × 12.4 cm (7/8 × 5 15/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift and funds from various donors, 2001
Object Number: 2001.100
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