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A very old photograph of two men and a burro standing outside a small wooden shack in the middle of a forest with immense trees. One man is wearing a dark top hat looking had and a dark vest over a white shirt and solid boots. The other man is wearing a workshirt but is otherwise in shadow. The donkey is wearing a pack. The image has a small metallic frame and appears to be held in place (where?) with a screw at the lower center of it.

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A very old photograph of two men and a burro standing outside a small wooden shack in the middle of a forest with immense trees. One man is wearing a dark top hat looking had and a dark vest over a white shirt and solid boots. The other man is wearing a workshirt but is otherwise in shadow. The donkey is wearing a pack. The image has a small metallic frame and appears to be held in place (where?) with a screw at the lower center of it.
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Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 08:33:39 JST Jessamyn
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A cool thing about early photographers is their selfies. Unlike a LOT of other people of the time, we know what they look like. C. L. Howe was a VT photographer. I went to see if there were other ones. I found M. M. Hazeltine, known for his Yosemite pix, and found a teeny image of him and his brother working a gold claim in CA in the 1850s. Checked with the library to make sure they weren't claiming copyright for their scan (they weren't) and in to Wikipedia it goes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mason_Hazeltine

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