This is a photo of a daguerreotype taken in they 1850's by a distant relative of mine. The caption on the photo is "Young ladies who were attending the academy and boarding at our house".
As I was looking through old photos of my family, most not as old as this one, I noticed that the older photos were usually much more posed than many of the photos we take today. Presumably this is because taking photos was very expensive in the past and by posing for photos you were almost guaranteed a good image.
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