I am trying my hand at face matching across pictures and present these two as an example. The first is a digitized image of the daguerreotype taken of the Ladies Graduates at Oberlin in 1853 which was the class Laura …
Having been freed from taking care of her sister and young nephew, Laura was ready for other employment. She was fairly quickly able to find a job teaching, first the summer term at a school district in one near-by place …
As Laura described herself: “At home it was my one delight to get hold of a book or paper, both of which were limited in our family library. … A bachelor uncle lived in our family and took great interest …