New photo of Dr Mudd from Mr Dave Taylor?

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(05-25-2019 03:10 PM)Steve Wrote:  Eva a lot of stereoscopic photographic sets/images have not survived. The Robin Stanford collection (with its extensive collection of Civil War stereoscopic photographs) at the Library of Congress, that I linked to above, was only donated in 2015 - I think, and has photographs of events that we don't seem to have other surviving photographs of.

Link to images:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=r...st=gallery

Link to catalog description:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015645331/

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Also, Dave mentioned that there were other photos of Fort Jefferson that seemed to be taken at the same time as this one.

I was going to mention that also, Steve. Those photos appear to be documentation of work being done on the fort -- maybe contracted by the U.S. Army for site inspection purposes. The gentleman, Dr, Mudd or someone else, was posed just to represent a civilian amongst military guards?

Also, the digitization record specifically says that the photo is of Dr. Mudd. Does that come from the time of the photograph being taken or at a later time for archival work, where the person guessed at 1870, without knowing Mudd was released a year earlier?

Lots of possibilities, and some looking very good that it is Mudd, but sure wish one final clue would solve it.