The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Hurricane Jack]

Daguerreotype photo in velvet case with gold rope trim (1840s -1850s)

White hats had to be very unusual for the era…

… unless you were “Big Daddy”.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Glass Ambrotype photo (brothers?)

 

[BobHufford]

Ozark County, Missouri

 

[shopkin]

Cool. Do you suppose that is a treadle-powered drill?