Mystery Man, late 1860s? New Hampshire or Maine?
Gem photo, patented 1863, no Civil War tax stamp. This is a photo from Hester Ann Ellingwood Fifield (1820-1895)'s Album.
"The form of tintype (also referred to as ferrotype or sometimes melainotype) known as a 'gem'; is a small photographic image usually anywhere from 3/4" to 1" wide and 1¼" high made possible by the use of a multi-lens camera with repeating back which therefore could produce multiple exposures on a single photographic plate. In terms of quantity, the gem was the most prolifically produced form of photograph in the 1860s in America...." -- Marcel Safier, Brisbane, Australia via an Internet Search.
The back of the card is blank.
Gram Fifield, and her husband, Edward, were foster parents for my Great-grandmother Rose Ella Andrews after her father died in the Civil War and her mother died soon after. My grandparents gave me Gram Fifield's album in the 1960s.
Mystery Man, late 1860s? New Hampshire or Maine?
Gem photo, patented 1863, no Civil War tax stamp. This is a photo from Hester Ann Ellingwood Fifield (1820-1895)'s Album.
"The form of tintype (also referred to as ferrotype or sometimes melainotype) known as a 'gem'; is a small photographic image usually anywhere from 3/4" to 1" wide and 1¼" high made possible by the use of a multi-lens camera with repeating back which therefore could produce multiple exposures on a single photographic plate. In terms of quantity, the gem was the most prolifically produced form of photograph in the 1860s in America...." -- Marcel Safier, Brisbane, Australia via an Internet Search.
The back of the card is blank.
Gram Fifield, and her husband, Edward, were foster parents for my Great-grandmother Rose Ella Andrews after her father died in the Civil War and her mother died soon after. My grandparents gave me Gram Fifield's album in the 1960s.