Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait striking poster as one thinks they just

as one thinks they just really liked to draw branches--as well as stars

crinkles or wrinkles

or nail to a post

tapered (sort of top-like) shape

of the true love between the one lost and the one left behind

Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait striking poster as one thinks they justFound in Maine this week the latest in my ongoing pursuit of early photographs of folk art paintings, created as one means of capturing likenesses gave way to another, and emblematic of the want to carry things, and people, forward. (I think of such things as akin to digitally scanning old 35 mm slides, or digitizing VHS tapes the problem persisted as technology progressed!) And what a soulful looking woman she appears to me, lovely but looking as