Jefferson Davis CDV?

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There is a photo of him ca. 1885 on Wikipedia. It's a dark photo of him in profile sitting on a park bench. If our graphics people on this forum know how to lighten the photo, you might be able to get a comparison. I tried cutting and pasting to no avail.

I will say that the fuller beard is very similar to the gentleman's in your CDV. My hold-back is that his face in your CDV appears much longer than the usual photo(s) we see of Davis.

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Go here, hopefully it will open up the photo
https://featherfoster.files.wordpress.co...family.jpg

And here: https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/i...tion=click

I think we may have a winner!

Me again - keep scrolling through that last link 'cause there are others of an elderly Davis - one of which appears to be the same bench photo that Roger posted below, only from Davis's back.