CDV of man from Kenosha, Wisconsin
What it is:
Carte de visite (CDV) measuring approx. 2.5 x 4.25 inches.
What I know about it:
Photographer is Truesdell of Kenosha, Wisconsin. It is undated and unidentified, but it comes from the same Civil War-era photo album as a CDV and a tintype that I previously posted. (This one doesn’t have a revenue stamp on the back, which made the other CDV easier to date.)
Comments:
Not much to say about this one except that, as always, I find it a little haunting to see a man staring back at me across 140 years or so. I like that his pose is relatively casual. The bit of fringe peeping out from behind his elbow makes me wonder what the whole chair looks like. Also, and this is just a (possibly erroneous) generalization, but it seems like portraits of this era were much more content to let their subjects exist in front of a blank wall, rather than trying to enhance things with the scenery that was more common in the next couple of decades.
Pics of Then 
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