Unique Tintype Photo Sleeping Man Holding Newspaper Post Mortem or Not siblings The grief is plainly visible

The grief is plainly visible on the mother's face

I also plan on making a scan shortly and adding it to this listing

5" and in very good antique condition with several light bends

Rousseau resigned from the army in 1865 to resume his congressional career and became a vocal advocate of President JohnsonÂ’s reconstruction policy

It was hard to get a good scan

Unique Tintype Photo Sleeping Man Holding Newspaper Post Mortem or Not siblings The grief is plainly visibleOriginal tintype of an older, bearded man, pretending? to have fallen asleep reading a newspaper, which he is holding. On his feet, which are propped up, he is wearing embroidered smoking slippers; he appears to have been warming them next to the great cast iron parlor stove on the right. An unusual and rare, great scene. *** Doubtful that this is a post mortem, though some who have seen it believe it is! Would be an incredible one, if so A light