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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1495389, member: 8267"]Based on the backdrop, the original photograph was taken in a photographer's studio, perhaps a temporary itinerant studio. Based on the women's dress, with subtle "mutton chop" sleeves, the date would be about 1890. I would expect a family portrait of this period to be mounted as a "cabinet card". Difficult to tell from the photo of the back, but from the paper I suspect this is a later copy of the original photograph.</p><p>No way to tell who the sitters are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1495389, member: 8267"]Based on the backdrop, the original photograph was taken in a photographer's studio, perhaps a temporary itinerant studio. Based on the women's dress, with subtle "mutton chop" sleeves, the date would be about 1890. I would expect a family portrait of this period to be mounted as a "cabinet card". Difficult to tell from the photo of the back, but from the paper I suspect this is a later copy of the original photograph. No way to tell who the sitters are.[/QUOTE]
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