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Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte
Paul- I didn't even consider this stereoview being a silver gelatin print. It may well be. I can't tell from the posted images. That would push it into the late 1870s, at the earliest?
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Sorry for the confusion, Gary—I wasn’t clear. I believe the stereoview is albumen. The final image above, depicting a man who appears to have just removed his cap, is—I believe—a later silver gelatin copy photograph of an 1859 print. I may be mistaken; doing this from memory, which gets increasingly unreliable.
Edited to add: the person I am referring to has been identified by some sources to be Charles Schuyler De Bost, but I think even that identification is tentative. The image of De Bost was taken from a “photostat copy” in the collection of the New York Public Library after the original was either lost or stolen. Suffice it to say that working from a photostat copy of an original albumen photograph introduces error.