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!