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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.

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Uploaded on October 4, 2011
Taken circa 1868