A great pair of originally sealed and ID'd sixth plate daguerreotype images. The one of the mother with the two sons is great as both kids have different tinting to their clothes. The mom must be teaching them something in the book as she is pointing to a specific page. The husband and father of these people died before this image would have been taken.
Records also show that this mother and one son died a few years after this image was taken and then the second son died just after the Civil War. A great pair of images that need to stay together.