Two Public domain daguerreotype images in a double case; part of the Library of Congress holdings.

19th Century Liberian shipping magnate, Urias McGill, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664344/
and Sarah McGill Russwurm, he woman believed to be his sister (the widow of John Brown Russwurm).  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664345/
Daguerreotypes made by Augustus Washington, circa 1954

I digitally restored and combined the images; blogging about:

Sarah McGill Russwurm
http://ancestry.russwurm.org/blogs/2014/02/27/sarah-mcgill-russwurm/

and the copyright issue
https://laurelrusswurm.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/sarah-mcgill-russwurm-and-the-public-domain/

and daguerreotypes
http://laurelrusswurm.tumblr.com/post/78216482982/daguerreotype-case-in-her-portrait-sarah-mcgill

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