| Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre Mrs. Louise Georgina Daguerre (left) Miss Marguerite-Félicité Arrowsmith (right) 1840s (ca) Daguerreotypes (?) Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada LL/35517 These two ladies were instrumental in encouraging Daguerre to be photographed by Charles Meade in 1848.
Mrs. Louise Georgina Daguerre, wife of Louis and aunt and surrogate mother to Marguerite-Félicité .
Miss Marguerite-Félicité Arrowsmith, lived with the Daguerres in Bry as a member of the household.
This illustration was included in the lecture "The many faces of Daguerre" presented by Matt Isenburg at the Daguerreian Society Symposium (2009).
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