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I have to admit, Friend No. 70 kind of freaks me out a bit:
Friend No. 70
It’s her eyes! The above is a scan of a tintype, which I’m tentatively dating in the early 1860s, due to her style of dress.
Friend No. 71 was quite the dapper dresser:
Friend No. 71
I couldn’t get this carte de visite out of the album, so I snapped a photo instead. I wanted to research the long coat he is wearing — that and his other clothing/accessories can help date the photo. I think the coat is called a morning coat, which according to this site became popular in the early 1880s.
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History in the Making, “Men’s Costume 1885 – 1910,” (http://www.historyinthemaking.org : accessed 2 May 2011).
