Quarter-plate ambrotype of a woman and daughter photographed by an unlisted and hard to find Texas photographer - John Thomas Poe. The only other time I have heard of this photographer was on a CDV, placing him in Huntsville, Texas. See the 3rd image in this listing - provided for reference only and NOT INCLUDED. Poe was a watchmaker and briefly a photographer before joining the Civil War (4th Texas Cavalry). He was a pre-Pony Express mail carrier in Texas for several years. Based on period ID’d Halyburton and Poe images I picked up at the same time as this ambrotype, I believe the sitters were the photographer’s daughter Eleanor Josephine “Ella” Poe Halyburton (born 1863, Texas) and his wife Carrie Heydon “Carrie” Wright Poe. Ella married Peyton Gwynn Halyburton, the son of Judge James Dandridge Halyburton of Richmond, Virginia, who was the highest Judge in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Ambrotype in in very good antique condition behind mat and cover glass in a poor union case. Boxed shipping.
