This older fellow is identified as Jacob Black. Mr Black looks a bit like a pragmatist to me. He is accepting of this photograph sitting, perhaps because Mrs Black wants it. He sat for his image at W. H. Whitehead’s Parlor Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA.
This older fellow is identified as Jacob Black. Mr Black looks a bit like a pragmatist to me. He is accepting of this photograph sitting, perhaps because Mrs Black wants it. He sat for his image at W. H. Whitehead’s Parlor Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA.
Would you say this older gentleman is austere or cranky?
I believe photographs were used sometimes on calling cards as a way to impress the young lady of interest to a young man. These two fellows dressed nicely for their images to be made, I suppose so they could share the images and thereby be certain Miss Susie Jones would remember them. Or so I …
Who Were They? 