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Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West
Accession Number
AD/NPG.2007.25
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About this artwork
When brothers Marcus Aurelius and Samuel Root announced the opening of their new daguerreian gallery in New York City in this 1851 advertisement, they seized upon the public’s desire for family portraits. Proclaiming in boldface type, “DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS AND FAMILY