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They are unique, direct positive images formed on a sheet of highly polished and silvered copper.  The process flourished primarily for commercial portraiture and rapidly replaced portrait miniature painting as a record of a loved one and an intimate keepsake. Mememto mori or post mortem daguerreotypes are an important genre within early photography.  The unusual example of the 'double portrait', housed in one case of the elderly woman alive and deceased makes a powerful comparative pairing.  The subject's resting pose of her crossed hands in the life portrait is intentionally and aptly echoed in the post mortem image.","physicalDescription":"One of two mounted daquerreotypes in hinged wood case covered with embossed leather. This image, on the right when case is opened, is of a woman with eyes open wearing a fabric bonnet fastened at the chin.  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