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ErhanneJanuary 14, 2025
Interesting hair style for the period! I wonder if she was mixed race and that was her way of styling curtly hair in a western fashion.
Going through old photographs for a project, she's a friend's ancestor's friend as far as I can tell.
I'm dating it based on other photos from the same set and the age of the person I believe is in them. Sometimes it's hard to tell when the photos are grainy and the person is very young, and your best photos are from when they're old! Mentally aging faces so to speak. But this one is extremely decent quality. Looked at less over the years because she wasn't a direct ancestor afaict.
She's long gone, no privacy to violate I hope but correct me if I'm wrong, but something about her eyes screamed to me that she needed to be shared with you all! Plus that top looks divine especially when you imagine all the hand sewing that went into it 🤤
a_shrubJanuary 14, 2025
I forget which book I read the description in, but it's fitting here: lucid intelligent eyes.
LapisLazuliJanuary 13, 2025
I wonder if at time they had cameras that cameras that could take instant pictures vs. having to remain motion less for a period of time. (Sometimes if you see those "groups of people" pictures you can see the same person on both ends because they ran from one end to the other while the photographer was capturing the image!)
Looks like a woman who brooks no quarter: firm, open gaze, chin up, not a fussy hairdo.