Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait haunting painting with some spotting/light rusting to

with some spotting/light rusting to the lid as documented

and I've gotten pretty choosy

tightly knotted at their necks

Beautifully done

Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait haunting painting with some spotting/light rusting toFound in Maine this week the latest in my ongoing pursuit of early photographs of folk art paintings, created as one means of capturing likenesses gave way to another, and emblematic of the want to carry things, and people, forward. (I think of such things as akin to digitally scanning old 35 mm slides, or digitizing VHS tapes the problem persisted as technology progressed!) And what a soulful looking woman she appears to me, lovely but looking as