1/6 Daguerreotype ID'd Man California Miner Military Buckle Civil War Veteran kepler and is that a tall

and is that a tall fishing pole the boy is holding

Condition of the image is very good

I will look for it before shipping

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1/6 Daguerreotype ID'd Man California Miner Military Buckle Civil War Veteran kepler and is that a tall1 6 plate daguerreotype of Edward Douglas Phelps (19 August 1837 20 December 1917). Great, confident pose! Phelps was born in New Hampshire and was a miner and bookkeeper in California. Hillary Knox was his stepfather, married to his mother Lydia Phelps Knox. FamilySearch shows that Phelps enlisted in the Civil War in June 1863 in St. Louis, Missouri. It looks like he's wearing a military belt buckle here, but his shirt looks more like a miner's