If I could ask this handsome couple one question, it wouldn’t be, “Why does it look like you’re in North Africa?” No, it would be, “What is your relationship to each other?” My first assumption was that they were sister and brother, based on the way they’re posed in the studio. Then I noticed she was wearing a wedding ring. Well, they could still be sister and brother. Or, they could be a couple who just had an argument … because they’re lost in the desert.
She appears to be wearing a locket:
I think he wins the sartorial prize, though, for his polka-dotted bow tie:
The cabinet card was made in Topeka, Kansas, at the studio of James H. Leonard and H.T. Martin. According to an interesting blog about Kansas history, the partnership lasted from 1874 until about 1887.
So, what do you think? Are they siblings or are they a couple?
Could be either siblings or a married couple but I wonder if their positions have more to do with the studio setup than their feelings about each other. Also his hair or rather the lack of it makes him look like he just got out of prison!
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Well, you WOULD think of prison, ha ha! To me his haircut just says “Kansas.”
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Maybe they just want it to look like theyre “not in Kansas any more”.😊 what strikes me is how young they both look.
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Yes, just starting the great adventure of young adulthood.
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I vote siblings. Look at their ears!
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Yes, hard to tell. I’d love to see them both with their hats on. Great photo!
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Yes, the hats! Very becoming, I would think, though not adequate for desert hiking.
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Siblings – same mouths!
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You’re right! I hadn’t focused on their mouths. Their faces seem to have the same expression because their mouths are exactly the same.
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Intriguing. They do seem to have similar mouths and ears–but what very different eyes!
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Like you, I first thought brother and sister. They are very ‘distant’ from one another for a married couple if that’s what they are… intriguing!
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I vote for siblings. If they are a married couple, it appears that marital therapy is indicated.
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Ha! 😀
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Siblings. Ears, mouths, eyebrows, shape of face. Not sitting together because the rock’s too small for both of them and anyway he’s got a backache… doesn’t bode well for his later years, does it? 😉
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The rock loveseat must be in a different part of the studio. 😀
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Haha! You could be right!
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