Hello, Dolley? Earliest Known Photograph of a First Lady Comes to Auction

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Hello, Dolley? Earliest Known Photograph of a First Lady Comes to Auction

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Art@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Sotheby’s is offering a recently surfaced 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison, who is credited with inventing the role of first lady.

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