Object Image

[Postmortem Baby, Partially Covered by a Flowered Shawl with a Fringe Hem]

Unknown (American)

Credit: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008

1840s

Daguerreotype

2.6 x 2.1 in

2015.400.7

Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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