The world’s first fake photograph, a self-portrait of Hippolyte Bayard, as a suicide victim, ca. 1830s.

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vintagechildren:

1840s Siblings by LJMcK on Flickr.

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Sisters. From the Library of Congress.

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tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870, [daguerreotype portrait of a woman looking into mirror]

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive

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Daguerreotype from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection.

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Daguerreotype of little girl with hair ribbons.

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tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype of a girl with a portrait of George Washingtion, possible allegory of allegiance], Southworth and Hawes

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection

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Love me a photo of a photo.

via the Smithsonian Institute, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

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