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A Rosey-Checked, Ice-Blue-Eyed Man with a Too-Small Hat, ca. 1875

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Both images are details from this lovely tintype, a piece of photographic Americana I picked up in an antique store, found while looking for odd bits like it to construct an imaginary mug book for people who committed imaginary crimes, crimes against teh imagination.  But not this man–he held his imagination in his little hat, a hat too small for his head.  The original is really rather small, only about an inch tall, but for all of its minor dimensions it has major visual attractions.  

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