Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — THOSE OLD DAGUERREOTYPES. [ARTICLE]

THOSE OLD DAGUERREOTYPES.

We saw a couple of days figo a couple of daguerreotypes taken over 50 years ago, / > They were swell affairs, showing the likenesses of a couple now married fifty years. The lady’s hair is parted in the middle and comes down each side of the head, smooth as can be, not a hair out of plaofc and ends in a roll that covers the ears, making a very strict and neat coiffure. From the ears hang very large pendant earrings with cameo setting, while at the throat appears a large breast pin with a cameo as centerpiece. The gold in this jewelry shows up like a house afire as also does the ring, for these dauguerreotypes were very strict as to details and even showed the bloom on “My lady’s” cheeks. She presents a nice appearance, prim and neat, in a large sleeved dress fashionable at the time. The husband loomed up with a hair cut also covering the ears straight across, not unlike a docked horse’s tail, the kind of a hair cut “mamma used to make.” His tie was a broad “straight across” that resembled a sash worn by a child now a days. In the center of it was a pin that the diaugerreotype caused to appear like the headlight of a locomotive on a dark night. Below this was a broad expanse of shirt front encircled by a velvet vest of which he must have been justly proud for they cost something in those days. Our order - readers perhaps may hardly repress a smile when they think of those old days when vanity held as great a sway with them as it does with the present generation.