This is a Cabinet Card from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.
Platt was the photographer from 17 Douglas Ave. Elgin, Ill.
The back of the Cabinet Card gives us a date 1890.
Works of the Elgin National Watch Company
S.L.Platt
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I wonder if this is a funeral card. I have one that is posted with the guy and things all around his photo.
ReplyDeleteYes it could be...one never knows for sure.
DeleteWhen I saw that fixed gaze, and the setting of the portrait, I wondered that same thing...funeral card.
ReplyDeleteWhich makes me wonder...you know how people didn't even smile in those old photographs because supposedly the slightest twitch of a muscle would blur the picture? Well, how on earth did these people keep from blinking?
Blinking wasn't as bad a moving. Moving blurs the exposure and blinking doesn't not sure why:)
DeleteJust to be sure, I checked S. L. Platt and he definitely was a photographer and very active in the 1880-1890s.
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