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On the back is the studio imprint
this portrait would have been taken around the time Kelley became president of the Columbus and Xenia Railroad in 1847
and room to hold 60 photographs
and possibly as far north as Trinity County
around where the child's feet are
1/6 Daguerreotype ID'd Man California Miner Military Buckle Civil War Veteran fritz On the back is the1 6 plate daguerreotype of Edward Douglas Phelps (19 August 1837 20 December 1917). Great, confident pose! Phelps was born in New Hampshire and was a miner and bookkeeper in California. Hillary Knox was his stepfather, married to his mother Lydia Phelps Knox. FamilySearch shows that Phelps enlisted in the Civil War in June 1863 in St. Louis, Missouri. It looks like he's wearing a military belt buckle here, but his shirt looks more like a miner's