A ghost?

[KS Toronado]

Look at the guy on the extreme left, there appears to be a ghost standing next to him. You can go
to the website (college library no paywall) and blow the image up about 5X. Click icon on upper
right corner then use scroll wheel to enlarge more. Photo taken 1873.



https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/wes/id/524/rec/54

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I see it. Wow. Perhaps the plate wasn't 100% perfectly created (a flaw in manufacturing the plate), ...

Very interesting!

[Eko]

2. Guy prob had to leave.

How long did it take to take a photo in the 1870s?
The exposure time for daguerreotypes was originally anywhere from five minutes to half an hour, making sitting for a portrait a painful and often unsuccessful process. Innovations in the 1840s increased the sensitivity of the photographic plates and reduced the exposure time to under a minute.

[KS Toronado]

6. Hadn't thought about exposure times, probably what it was.

[HeartsCanHope]

3. The guy just might have moved when the picture was taken.

Also my son says it could be a double exposure. I don't think it's a ghost.

[pansypoo53219]

5. long exposures. he was moving.

the only oldest pic of a human because he was getting his shoes shined.no shiner.

[Clouds Passing]

4. Looks like a ghost. I had a ghost in my house, she was always messing with

lights, fans, radios, rattling windows and doors. Hiding things.