(05-25-2019, 04:10 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/
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.
New photo of Dr Mudd from Mr Dave Taylor?
