Quote Originally Posted by Chas View Post
Has the picture been 'flopped' or is your grandfather playing 'wrong-handed' deliberately?
I could be wrong, but given the time that the image
was made, it's likely to be a Daguerreotype -- and they
are effectively negative images.

see: Wikipedia-- Daguerreotype

My recollection is that a number of early photographic processes
resulted in reversed images.

-Don