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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 9541622, member: 33&quot;]The photographer was George M. Elton of Palmyra, New York.&nbsp; He was apparently well known in his day, as I&#039;ve found a lot of mentions of him online. This image is listed (not shown) on page 9 of this pdf document:</p><p><a href="https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/158/2016/06/philadelphia-photographer-by-date-1.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/158/2016/06/philadelphia-photographer-by-date-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/158/2016/06/philadelphia-photographer-by-date-1.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is what page 9 says about it.</p><p><b>Negative by George M. Elton (Palmyra, New York, 1848-1927), printed by Charles T. Fellows. “Me Next. A Chip of the Old Block [composit from two negatives].” Silver print. The Philadelphia Photographer 28, no.407 (December1891). Commentary on p.718</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The typed document linked above has the title</p><p><b>Index to frontispiece embellishments from 1864 to 1901 in The Philadelphia Photographer (later Wilson’s Photographic Magazine). Chronological by issue.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Issues of <i>The Philadelphia Photographer</i> are probably digitized in Internet Archive, Google Books, and/or HathiTrust. Or somewhere else. If you are interested, the frontispiece should be findable online.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t find any publication history of reproductions of your image. It is clever, and I assume it was reproduced at least several times. Also, if <i>The Philadelphia Photographer</i> was published in a very large format, it would be possible that this is the frontispiece mentioned in the index. But somebody would need to check into the history of that publication.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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