Woman seated, holding daguerreotype, c. 1850
from George Eastman House
tuesday-johnson:ca. 1850’s, [portrait of a young girl on a rocking horse]
Nude study - coloured daguerreotype, c. 1851-1854
by Félix-Jacques Moulin [few more here]
Les baigneuses : étude de nus dans une composition picturale,1851-55
queering:Two Nude Women Embracing
Half plate with applied colour, circa 1848
Unknown French Photographer
From The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces from The J. Paul Getty Museum
courtesy of liquidnight
liquidnight:“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
—Louisa May Alcott
Photographer unknown
[photo via All Things Amazing]
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