Tinted daguerreotype depicting the children of Lieutenant Montgomery C. Meigs, taken in Detroit, Michigan, USA, sometime in 1853. The Meigs family purchased the donkey from two French trapper/missionaries. Left to right: Mary Montgomery Meigs (born August 22, 1843), Charles Delucena Meigs (born January 5, 1845; died September 3, 1853), Vincent Trowbridge Meigs (born September 12, 1851; died October 28, 1853), and John Rodgers Meigs (born February 9, 1852).