Vintage Daguerreotype Photos of People From Asia From the Early Victorian Era (1840s/1850s)

A collection of daguerreotype photographs of people from across Asia taken during the 1840s, 1850s, and early 1860s.

Sources: National Archives and Records Administration, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rijksmuseum, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago.

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