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Black-and-white portrait photograph in a gold mat and frame of a white baby in a bonnet and gown sleeping in the lap of a black woman in a white skirt and brocade upper. The woman is seen only from lap to shoulders.

Untitled (Portrait of a Sleeping Baby in a Woman's Lap)

1851

W. A. Pratt American, 19th century

United States

Daguerreotype

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