William Ball Palmer was born in Somerset and was living in Gloucestershire when the 1861 census was taken.

Portrait of a man holding a book. He wears high collars and a big black bow tie. Hand coloured

Portrait of a seated young man. He wears a striped waistcoat and a check bow tie.

Catherine M Wiseman had six children. This image is one of three plates, seemingly identical, presumably for different children. They were probably taken as three successive exposures. All three are included in case anyone wishes to study multiple daguerreotype images.

Portrait of a standing woman before a painted backdrop with a column on the left. She wears a lace cap with ribbons tied under her chin and a ribbon at her forehead over ringlets. She wears a dark dress with a lace collar with a lace trimmed shawl draped over her right arm.