prewarsports, while I disagree respectfully with your date on the stereoview, I totally understand your questions about the ages. I am also very familiar with the 1862 photo, which has been used for most of the comparisons here. Initially it frustrated me, as I couldn't reconcile my IDs with some of the men's sizes. However, I then discovered that the 1862 photo is an artist-enhanced composite. It's unclear if any of them were even in the same room together, but the photographer took separate pictures and assembled them using a cut-and-paste method, and then used a marking device to fill in the details that became obscured during that process and the enlargement. This is most evident in Charles De Bost. He looks like The Hulk in the 1862 photo, and makes Doc Adams look like a tiny ant. But in the 1859 picture, he is standing next to Doc and Doc is actually a bit taller. The man looking down, whom I ID as Fraley Niebuhr, was also a bit frustrating. My initial inclination was that he is Harry Wright, who joined the Knicks in 1857 at age 22. He was about 30 years younger than the other men, which would fit pretty well. He also does resemble Harry at that age, and I can't rule it out. But when I do the face-to-face comparisons, he matches up extremely well with Niebuhr (who was younger than the others by about seven years). Finally, regardless of the age of the stereoview, I suspect that the photo was taken earlier and the stereoview was made by taking a picture of it or using its negative. But once again, thank you for your contributions, which I definitely take into account, and I will continue to research it.
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