This would be fantastic to find, so please please please try to remember where you saw it.
I have managed to find a daguerreotype of a black person in Britain, but who he is is a mystery. I will now start my research into who this person could be.
Many thanks for help and advice
Marcia Michael
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> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:49:02 +0100
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: C19 photos
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> I have seen an earlier photograph of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, taken years
> before her marriage. In it Sarah Forbes Bonetta is a young girl with
> very short african hair. Any ideas about who took this picture and
> when? (an even where?)
>
> Cheers
>
> On 12 Sep 2008, at 10:46, Jan Marsh wrote:
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>> Nice photos of Sarah Forbes Bonetta and James Labulo Davies taken
>> shortly after their wedding in 1862 by the society photographer in
>> London Camille Silvy.
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>> Search NPG website under their names and/or ref. nos. Ax61380 – Ax61386
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