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72 4936 Daguerreotypes Peale & Linn 19th cent 72 4936 Daguerreotypes Peale & Linn 19th cent 72 4936 Daguerreotypes Peale & Linn 19th cent 72/4936 [Daguerreotypes]. Peale & Linn (19th cent.). (Two portraits showing a seated lady with lace handkerchiefs). Two daguerreotypes, ±1845 (without brass preservers), both quarter plate (12x9 cm.), w. the letterpress photographers' address "Peale & Linn 245 North Second St., Philad'a" mounted below images on gilt passepartout, in unif. embossed leather covered cases w. clasps and catches, inside of frontcover lined w. red velvet. = Perhaps sisters or mother and daughter. Sarah Weatherwax, curator at the Library Company of Phildelphia, has kindly offered information on these very rare photographs. In Photography in Philadelphia. Craig's Daguerrian Registry (unpublished) there is an entry of a Adam Linn, listed as a daguerrist in 1851/ 1852, but at a different address. He was listed in the city's directory of 1848 as a miniature painter, also at a different address. According to the same entry a collector has found a daguerreotype with the same address as our two photographs, but no Peale was ever registered at that address. However a certain James Peale was listed as a daguerreist from 1843 to 1848 in Philadelphia. It appears that it may have been a very short-lived partnership between Peale and Linn around the years 1847 and 1848. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.