American Daguerreotype Portraits of Men From the 1840's and 1850's

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[NRx]

Random daguerreotype photos of men from the 1840's and 50's. A window into our past.

[IronJack]

It’s a lock. I would guess he’s a locksmith or at least a carpenter.

[OregonRancher]

winner! simple lock mechanism

[Oorang]

I think it is a lock from a door. I have four, from my great-great grandfathers house built around 1812, and the one in the photo looks pretty much like what I have.

[x]

More here.

[mass55th]

Amazing...thanks.

[Hiddigeigei]

Sounds like the house I grew up in. It was built in the 1880s. It may have been some sort of kit house or standard design (Queen Ann Cottage), but it was quite large.

[jmacusa]

The house I grew up in was built sometime in the mid to late 1870’s. It had shingles on the outside, a large wrap around “L’’ shaped porch, large double front doors with a transom at the top. Inside it had wainscoting all around on the first floor. It had stained glass windows, pocket doors that could separate the living room and dining room and a large, wood and coal burning, four burner iron stove in the kitchen.

In remodeling the house, unfortunately, my late father took out the stove, the wainscoting, he took out just about everything including the L shaped porch and the iron stove, the double front doors(he left the pocket doors). The house also had marble ''dry sinks'' in the bedrooms. He took those out. Oddly, when he renovated the house he found there where no ''fire stops'' in the walls! He put those in, thank God.

[The Westerner]

Been doing that study of faces for decades. If you apply the method to modern faces, same principle applies. Very rare for the two halves of a face to match, imo.

[rlmorel]

LOL, I know...well I certainly didn’t REALLY think it was a disk drive...:)

[rlmorel]

I was thinking the same thing.

[rlmorel]

That in itself was kind of subtle, what was interesting was that it seems far less prevalent in females.

[WaltStuart]

I prefer

Rayshill Madcow as her name form.

[Albion Wilde]

Well done!

[Covenantor]

That's a mortise door lock.

[The Westerner]

Will take another look. The clear- eyed, resolute face of the average American back in the 1800’s is remarkable, but to-be-expected. The Industrial Revolution was achieved by these very people. I try to explain this to the poorly educated Americans I meet who believe these folks were “exploited by robber barons”!

[stuckincali]

Thanx I saw online a few yearsago photos of men who fought in the revolutionary war and who survived two have their pictures t ken

Also somewhere there is a roof top photo in Paris down to the street a few people and carriage or two. First photograph of a person #5 at the link.

Lots of firsts here.

https://petapixel.com/2015/05/23/20-first-photos-from-the-history-of-photography/

[rlmorel]

I agree. Life was hard in those days, but for many of them, it was a heck of a lot better than it had been for their parents and even themselves wherever they came from. There was a lot of opportunity.

I admire our forebears...:)

[rlmorel]

I know...I just found it humorous that the first thing in my brain (and in some others as well) was that this guy from 1850 was holding a disk drive of some sort!

Of course, we knew it wasn’t, but the initial flash made me grin to myself...:)

[The Westerner]

I agree. This was the land of opportunity til the growth of the Welfare State. I’m grateful to have known men and women who were a product of that time.

[Covenantor]

Figured as much....
;>)