We are not at all sure about fating this Daguerreotype. The boy here wears a longish cut-away jacket with contrasting dark, long kneepants. The jacket has fancy embroidery and split sleeves. Hr wears it with a scalloped white collar and tassels. Note the decoration on the hem of the pnts.This is a style that we might have associated more with the 1860s, but ambrotypes were rapidly replacing Daguerreotypes in the 1850s and Dags were a lot less common in the 1860s and quite rare by the mid-1860s. So we think that this might be a late 1850s portrait, but we are not at all sure. Also note the ring that the boy is wearing.
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