Daguerreotype Photo Lot New York Merchant & Family 1840s 1850s Rare Antique ID’d spook plus some other writing below

plus some other writing below that I can't decipher

and a man who I assume was their manager

the back of the mount is rough

Battle of Williamsburg

1864 in a Richmond hospital due to pneumonia

Daguerreotype Photo Lot New York Merchant & Family 1840s 1850s Rare Antique ID’d spook plus some other writing belowTwo daguerreotypes, an 1850s 1 4 plate by Anson, New York, of James Bowne Parsons Sr. (1809 1894), and a large, beautiful, mid 1840s half plate of a woman, boy and girl identified as his children, possibly taken by the pioneering NYC photographer John Plumbe. Emily was born in 1836 and died in 1891. I believe the boy seen here was is actually John Bowne Parsons and not James. John was born in 1838 and died in 1845, so very close to the time this dag