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Texas at this time

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I'm pretty sure these are members of the Reuben Wood family and the location is somewhere in the Adirondack Mountains

but the image is overall very good and the emulsion completely stable

Half Plate Daguerreotype Affectionate Men, Good Friends ID'd Photographer MARKS Storm Texas at this timeHalf plate, 1850s daguerreotype of two well dressed, bearded men with their arms around each other. Mat is stamped MARKS in the lower left corner, which could have been a number of photographers, but was most likely H. J. Marks of Baltimore, Maryland. Dag is in a full case that measures 6" x 4. 75" when closed. Covers are separated along the spine. Dag has been resealed with archival tape; bits of the original seals are inside of the case. It's in

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