3072:: CDV 1870s Studio Portrait of a Victorian Couple by photographer, Benjamin Franklin Saylor (1833-1920).

SKU-3072::
CDV 1870s Studio Portrait of a Victorian Couple by photographer, Benjamin Franklin Saylor (1833-1920).
Interesting graphic backmark: “B. Frank Saylor, 45 West King Street, Lancaster, PA”.
NOTE: under the camera tripod notice the artist’s palette and brushes. This may symbolize the transition the photographer made from painting portraits to taking photographic portraits, a very common circumstance at the time when cutting edge technology made obsolete painted portraits, which were quite expensive. Photographs were inexpensive.
4.1 x 2.5″
3g

USA 1870s c.W: CDV"D: 3g"Reference number: 2023.3072