This fine gentleman is Willis. No other name was noted, and so we shall probably never know exactly who Willis was. Was Willis his first or last name? He was in his middle aged years when he sat for his portrait at the Sherman Vignette Gallery on Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. Note his full …
For this week’s Sepia Saturday, I could have followed the prompt and given you a photograph of a nice, formal arrangement of soldiers. But I just couldn’t resist this. Click over to Sepia Saturday for military shenanigans and formal portraits alike.
While digging through the photos at Truly Tattered I found this wonderful example of how CdVs (cartes de visite) were used. The young man pictured wrote a brief note on the back, which says “your friend and classmate, John O. Andrews, State Line (something) June 1867.” The photo was made in Ann Arbor, …
Spot #29 and the final image in the Leather CdV Album is a tintype in its paper sleeve, showing a young man in a fine suit of clothes and nice boots. Although the back of the paper sleeve just has a piece of tissue holding the tintype in place and no photographer information, I’m …
They say everyone has a twin out there somewhere, and this man’s modern twin is without a doubt Gene Hackman. If there was going to be a movie about the people in the Leather CdV Album, Gene would definitely be cast as this character, whoever he was. As noted by T. L. …
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