Francis Henry Grice Library of Congress Daguerreotype 1343, ca1844, Proposed by RBN to Depict Sally Waterman Phelps (1797-1872)

The image on the left is Sally Waterman Phelps from her biography in the Joseph Smith Papers. Sally Waterman Phelps – Biography (josephsmithpapers.org) The image on the right is cropped and horizontally flipped from the Library of Congress Grice Collection of Daguerreotypes number 1343. [Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, seated, wearing mitts and spectacles, with arm resting on a table with tablecloth] (loc.gov)
Sally and her husband William Wines Phelps both wore spectacles.

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