Daguerreotype Portraits--Marriage

For two fine examples of marriage portraits (daguerreotypes), see the following images in Ben Mattison’s "The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait, 1839-1860" at http://users.rcn.com/ben42/daguerre/ :


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