A Francis Henry Grice Daguerreotype, ca1844, Proposed to Depict Vilate Murray Kimball

The left image is proposed to depict Vitale Murray Heber (1806-1867). The image has been cropped and flipped horizontally from Grice Library of Congress Daguerreotype Image 1373, a ninth-plate Daguerreotype. [Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] | Library of Congress (loc.gov) The right image is identified as Vitale Murray Heber and is from an engraving from a photograph. PHOTO: Vilate Kimball, Daughters of Utah Pioneers KIM0013 or Church History Library PH 3355 fd.1 item.2; see frontis of Orson F. Whitney, “Life of Heber C. Kimball.” published by the Kimball Family, 1888. frontis. online at: https://archive.org/details/LifeOfHeberC.Kimball/page/n7/mode/2up

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