New photo of Dr Mudd from Mr Dave Taylor?

[L Verge]

(05-19-2019 12:23 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I was getting ready to post this on boothiebarn, but will post here first:

Dave puts up a good argument, but I’m not convinced. First of all, he’s comparing clothing with the posed photo in the supposed carpentry shop. I don’t think Mudd was photographed there because he was just too nicely dressed to be working. I want someone to tell me what the prisoners at Ft. Jefferson wore usually – certainly not clothes nice enough for church. I also question the style of hat for ca. 1869.

My only other guess might be that Mudd is sitting there waiting for the moment to board the ship that would finally take him to freedom. If we could only enlarge the facial features without distortion...

We are getting closer to thinking that this might be an unknown photo of Dr. Mudd. Dave cites original sources from documents at the fort related to Mudd's one attempt at escaping and also about clothing that he received, and these documents answer a lot of our questions.