1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball and it just completely leapt

and it just completely leapt out to me

The rights to the image were later acquired by the Radio Corporation of America

the Anaktuvuk Nunamiut began making Caribou hide masks--embellished with the fur of caribou

It looks to me that our woman in magenta and orange is potting or tending to a plant

1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball and it just completely leaptThis is the first gem tintype album I've purchased, from a dealer who just pulled it out of an old estate in Jaffrey, NH. I do look at these sorts of albums, and do find the tiny ness of gem tintypes rather amazing, but usually, with one close up portrait of unknown person after another, they don't strike me as super compelling. (On my mantle, however, I have a single gem tintype of a man seated in a chair in a simple contemporary frame that is one of