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Woman breastfeeding a Baby, 1850s

Posted on 29.12.201529.12.2015

Daguerreotype of Mother breastfeeding a baby, ca. 1850

I wonder if the lady on this photo was the child’s biological mother or the wet nurse…

Via: Schlesinger Library

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Edward A. Cary & his sister Emma J. Cary, 1861-1862

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