Need help identifying man in old photo

[kpreed]

Many clients of mine have photos of friends and people that worked/helped Summers or etc. on the ranch or farm, they are mixed in with old family photos very often. I know this from one client who still lived on the family farm and the family had another photo with the guy (farm hand) ID'ed from a another farm near them. My photo software shows a good amount on your photo matches or a near match, so with that I say with 76% score, (never had a 100% yet) it may be the same lady as the others.
P.S. I have seen unprotected Tintypes also get real dark or faded, so store them and any photos for that mater, in a safe, dark and dry place. if you want to frame any, scan and make a print and frame the copy. Photos hate light. (scanner light tends to be real fast)

 

[R.G. White]

The thing that strikes me about the second woman is her eyes; the picture is clear and her eyes look rather dark. In the last two photos you can tell, without a second glance, that the women have very light colored eyes. It could just be the lighting, of course.

 

[Big Man]

Many clients of mine have photos of friends and people that worked/helped Summers or etc. on the ranch or farm, they are mixed in with old family photos very often. I know this from one client who still lived on the family farm and the family had another photo with the guy (farm hand) ID'ed from a another farm near them. My photo software shows a good amount on your photo matches or a near match, so with that I say with 76% score, (never had a 100% yet) it may be the same lady as the others.

Thank you so much. I'd wondered about the "unknown lady" ever since I got the pictures from my great aunt's house. When, quite by chance, I happened to look at it along side a known picture of my great grandmother at a younger age I was shocked to think it could be the same person.

Obviously, I never knew my great grandmother personally (she died in 1928), but growing up I heard enough about "Grandma Brown" from my grandmother and aunts that I felt I did know her. My "knowledge" of her was as an older woman who was a strict Baptist (kind of like grandma Walton of "The Waltons" TV show of the 1970's). Needles to say I was surprised to see this picture that I now can say with great certainty is my great grandmother when she was around 25 or 26 years old.

Here is the entire photo.

 

[kpreed]

The photo is for sure from a studio and the light may be a factor as the others seem not in a studio, but what I have is not a 100% match , so it could be her or a family member, I will go with her for now.

 

[Big Man]

I'm dragging up this old thread from the past because it was so helpful to me in identifying some family members in old photos. Well, I have another old photo that I need help with.

The photo below is a tintype and was taken in Polk County, NC (a rural western NC county). The photographer was W.F.T
Brown, a distant relative of mine. I believe the older man in the photo is one of my direct ancestors (and the younger man is most likely his son).

What I need to know to tie it all together and say with certainty who the older man is, is the approximate date of the photo. I know if it were taken after a certain date it cannot be who I suspect.

Based on the clothing and style/type of photo, what date range would you give this old photo?