Digging around in the attic, I found these portraits of my ancestor Algar Ebenezer Boulengeman, a trapper on the Great Plains of Canada:
Incidentally (and unrelatedly), I also took some glass ("collodion") photos on the beach in Trouville this afternoon but they weren't good so I won't show them to you.
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