This cabinet card portrait features an older gentleman with an interesting “billy goat” beard. The Cabinet Card Gallery has an interesting collection of photographs of men with remarkable beards. You can access these images by clicking on the category “Beards and Mustaches (Only the Best)”. This particular photograph was taken by photographer, Jonathan Millard Brainerd (1851-1926). Brainerd operated a studio in Rome, New York and was a friend of famed photography entrepreneur, George Eastman. Brainerd has another photograph in the Cabinet Card Gallery and you can see that image, as well as learn more about him, if you click on the category “Photographer: Brainerd”. (SOLD)
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY 