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Daguerrotype portrait of Charles Bray

Black and white photograph of a man. The cheeks have been tinted pink. He has a high white collar, white shirt, black necktie and black jacket. The photograph is in an oval frame with a gold mount. It is in a red case.
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c 1849
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This is a photograph of Charles Bray, a friend of George Eliot. Charles Bray was a ribbon manufacturer in Coventry. He was also part of a group of radicals called the Rosehill Circle, named after his home in Coventry. This is a type of photograph called a Daguerrotype and was made by Marcus and Samuel Root of Broadway, New York.

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