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The daguerrotype we have is not of her.
People always experience recordings of their voices as somehow not their own. But it wasn’t just the sixteen-year-old Emily who didn’t recognize this stranger. Her own family thought it looked nothing like her. They didn’t keep it on display at the Homestead because guests kept asking, in her presence, whose it was.
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