Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait haunting painting tightly knotted at their necks

tightly knotted at their necks

or abstracted animals like this

I love the ANMB monogram on the front

and I've gotten pretty choosy

and Feb 22

Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait haunting painting tightly knotted at their necksFound in Maine this week the latest in my ongoing pursuit of early photographs of folk art paintings, created as one means of capturing likenesses gave way to another, and emblematic of the want to carry things, and people, forward. (I think of such things as akin to digitally scanning old 35 mm slides, or digitizing VHS tapes the problem persisted as technology progressed!) And what a soulful looking woman she appears to me, lovely but looking as