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

[Jim Garrett]

(08-23-2013 05:17 AM)BettyO Wrote:  

Quote:Does anyone know how much it cost in those days to have one's picture taken?

Eva -

I've had a little difficulty finding prices - as I'm at work; but I did find this one reference -

"In America, by 1851 a broadside by daguerreotypist Augustus Washington was advertising prices ranging from 50 cents to $10.[21] However, daguerreotypes were fragile and difficult to copy. Photographers encouraged chemists to refine the process of making many copies cheaply, which eventually led them back to Talbot's process."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography

Another reference stated that CDVs could cost anything from $1.00 to $5.00 (almost a week's pay!)

Here is an ad for photographs -

A Baltimore photographer!

[LincolnMan]

Looking at the picture- Booth looks contorted almost in his stance. Never paid attention to it before.

[L Verge]

I thought the exact same thing Bill. His legs did not seem bow-legged because that is usually a condition from the knee down, but what you can see almost looks like his legs are "sway-back" -- can't think of any other term.

[LincolnMan]

"Sway-back"- yes, that's it! You are quite the word-smith.