Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th Century Life

The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects.

McKenna Oxenden
Author: McKenna Oxenden

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