Not the same man?

[Steve Wilk]

Does anyone else think that the photos of George McAnulty on the cover of the May Newsletter are not of the same man? To me they don't look much alike at all: the faces don't seem to match and the hair is parted on the right in one photo, on the left in the other. What about it Ephraim? You sure this is the same man?

[pgb3]

They do appear to be the same man but one of the photos is flipped around.

[Diane Merkel]

I've posted the photos Ephriam sent me so you can better judge the face. I had to reduce the size of the 1877 one because it was a huge file.

www.lbha.org/Cavalry/McAnulty.htm

I sent Ephriam his copies of the Newsletter Saturday, so he hasn't seen the May cover yet.

I believe it is the same man.

[Ephriam Dickson]

Steve:

I have not seen the newsletter yet, but you are correct, the man's hair in the two photographs looks different at first glance. However, the portrait of McAnulty in uniform is actually a tintype. Remember that a tintype is a direct positive photographic process meaning that there is no negative -- the image comes out reversed. So if you pull Private McAnulty's portrait into Photoshop and reverse it, then you can see that it matches up perfectly. I put the two images together along with a third photograph of McAnulty at the following website:

lakotahistorian.homestead.com/McAnultyPhotos.html


Ephriam

[Steve Wilk]

Thanks Ephriam....I figured the hair thing was due to the photography of the era. The faces to me just look different. I guess some hard campaigning against the Lakota and Cheyenne could age a man some.

[Walt Cross]

Same men, no doubt.

Walt