JWB Photo - Has Anyone Ever Seen the Full Length of This Photo?

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The ad that Betty showed must come from a post-Civil War source. I don't know much about early photography, but weren't Cabinet Cards in vogue after the war? Also, it is advertising photos on porcelain, which I associate more with post-Civil War. I have a porcelain photo of my great-great-uncle mounted in a beautiful gutta-percha case. The quality and "softness" of the image is remarkable.

It was taken after the war and after he had suffered as a prisoner at Point Lookout Prison. While a prisoner, he served on the grave-digging detail and injured his ankle with a grub-hoe. The injury remained an open sore for the rest of his life (he lived until the end of the 1800s) because of the filth and germs that entered his system.