1840s Dag ID'd Woman Rltd to Civil War Army Surgeon - Simpson / McCutchen Family Cmoh Album has wear

Album has wear

both things would be uncommon to find in dissection photography

It's possible they were a short-lived Mexican or South American studio

A medal is visible on the man on the left

Overall very good vintage condition

1840s Dag ID'd Woman Rltd to Civil War Army Surgeon - Simpson / McCutchen Family Cmoh Album has wearSixth plate, 1840s daguerreotype of a woman wearing a bonnet and eyeglasses. She is identified only as "Simpson" by a period note inside of the case. This image was out of the estate of the noted physicist Dr. Charles Walter McCutchen of Princeton, who died in 2020. McCutchen was the great grandson of Dr. Josiah Simpson, who was a surgeon during the Civil War, and who had a hospital named after him. Dr. Josiah Simpson's daughter, Mary Isabella,