In legend a doppelganger is a ghostly duplicate of a living person. There is no more ghostly duplicate of a living person than that of a photograph of someone taken over a hundred years before you were born. A photograph of someone that could be your double.
Here is a Civil War Carte-de-Visite of a handsome young man who could be the look-alike for Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained.
An ancestor perhaps, or a true doppelganger? What do you think?.
Have you read the latest issue of Shades Of The Departed Magazine? You really should.
WOWZA!!!
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ReplyDeleteStunning! Fills me with longing that my ancestors had pictures like that. Alas none.
ReplyDeleteFran, I would have said that about once side of my family until I read a story written in the 30's by a long lost relative telling of the photographs of my GGGrandfather and Mother. The story had clues and now I'm searching, searching.
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