Professor Samuel Finley Breese Morse c1844 & c1870.



Detail of an extremely early daguerreian portrait c1839.



Does the first impression of your subjective eye admit that this could be Morse's face five & thirty years earlier and captured by an extremely primitive lens?



If the answer is NO, you may PREFER NOT TO PROCEED further
(though an enthusiast might find some useful information concerning the earliest history of daguerreian photography).

There is no definitive proof that this is Professor Morse--only a weight of circumstantial evidence.
At present the question must ultimately rest upon subjective opinion.

Hopefully sharing the following photographs and research will draw
definitive proof or disproof of the question.

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