Historical Indulgences

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of David Hobby] Note included:

“David Hobby who went to California at the time of the gold fever in 1847. He always wore his hair long…”

via the Daguerreian Society, Matthew R. Isenburg Collection

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