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Posted By: CoreyRS.hanus

My experience with photo ID is that if there are enough faces to choose from (and in the image at hand there are over 40 individuals) you can almost always find at least one face that bears enough of a resemblence to the person you are comparing it to to give you hope you found your match. Complicating matters further is that we are human. So try as we might, we cannot extinguish all subconscious biases in making our assessments. When I am making purchasing decisions about whether a particular person is in an image, I always require at least one other corroborating factor be present. For example, did the image come from the family of the person you hope is in the image? Is there a positive ID of another player who was known to have been on the same team? Is the photo process (e.g., albumen) consistent with the period the image is to date from? Etc., etc. Without this corroborating evidence, I would characterize as de minimus the probability that the image depicts the person you are looking for.