Who Were They?

I love these types of photos. The mount style is called trompe l’oeil and literally means “trick the eye.” The intent is to make it look like the photo was on a rolled up piece of paper and was a popular mount style in the 1880s and 1890s. I have other photos in this style. You can click on the category Trompe L’oeil to see them.

the photographer was O. H. Spencer in Circleville, Ohio.