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Bartola and Máximo

Bartola and Máximo Daguerreotype
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Daguerreotype, circa 1851

Visible image: 6.5 cm x 5 cm; in case: 9.5 cm x 8 cm

From the Daguerreotype collection
Photo. 1.252


Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case of Maximo and Bartola, the "Aztec children", exhibited by P. T. Barnum in Boston in 1851.