Old photo mounted on cardboard frame, circa 1880s – 1900.

Price:  $7.00

Size:  About 2 and 3/4″ x 3 and 3/4″ and about 5″ x 6″ including frame.

Lovely (despite “foxing”) studio portrait of a couple who must surely be husband and wife, and who presumably lived in Salinas. Studio stamp on the cardboard frame is “Butler. Salinas, Cal.” There are a couple of possibilities for the photographer:  Edward Payson Butler (1834-1923) who was active in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, and George R. Butler (1861- c.1935.) If this is the work of either one of these gentlemen, I believe it to be more likely that of George R. Butler, as he did have a photography studio in Salinas, while no record has been found of a studio or home address in Salinas for Edward Payson Butler. See the two separate posts on this site in the photographer category.