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Help recognizing photo

CONKLIN OR THOMSON

Posted By: Jean Mehaffey (email)
Date: 11/27/2013 at 16:26:40

This is a repost of an e-mail I received as in inquiry for help:

I have an original photo, an unidentified ancestor, whose photo was taken by “ Chas. Neff Photographer, DeWitt, Iowa”

The photo is a heavy card stock.

The family name could be Conklin or Thomson.

Does anyone recognize my mysterious relative?

Thank you,
Jean Mehaffey
Holiday, Florida
jmehaffey@tampabay.rr.com

From Wikipedia...........
Some cabinet card images from 1890s have the appearance of a black and white photograph in contrast to the distinctive sepia toning notable in the albumen print process.

Sometimes images from this period can be identified by a greenish cast. Gelatin papers were introduced in the 1870s and started gaining acceptance in the 1880s and 1890s as the gelatin bromide papers became popular. Matte collodion was used in the same period. A true black and white image on a cabinet card is likely to have been produced in the 1890s or after 1900. The last cabinet cards were produced in the twenties, even as late as 1924.

From this it would seem likely that the photo was taken before the 1890’s.

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