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When brothers Marcus Aurelius and Samuel Root announced the opening of their new daguerreian gallery in New York City in this 1851 advertisement, they seized upon the public’s desire for family portraits. Proclaiming in boldface type, “DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS AND FAMILY
![[Child playing on swings]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8271af4a-896a-49ed-89c4-4d4a974f84a8/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Max Baer fighting James "Jimmy" Braddock]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ba4b27b4-d54b-43e8-b729-2870b8c90398/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Queen Victoria Statue, Kensington Gardens]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d7c18ce9-fa8d-4cbe-b7cd-829a27e108ab/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
