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Child Standing on a Chair Holding Flowers, with Mother

c. 1855
daguerreotype, quarter-plate
15.4 × 12.7 cm (6.1 × 5 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Images of children were especially treasured in 1850s France, when one in four children died before reaching their fifth birthday.

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