I've found this photo in Toronto's City Hall Archive, section of Arts and Literature. Obviously this is just a photocopy, not original. Text is almost unreadable, but no doubts there is in caps: CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON and Ms. ALICE LIDDELL. Small italic letters couldn't read just the date: 1862, but I'm not sure. Who knows more about it, or has bigger image, please let me know.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Unknown photo of Lewis Carroll
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Intriguing but I don't think it's real. It's most likely photoshopped. Alice is posed as she is in one of the garden pictures, wearing the same style of dress--which is late 1850s. Her legs and feet are in the same positions as they are in that portrait. The picture of Carroll just looks plunked next to cut out photo of Alice and the two are put against an Oxford background.
In 1862, Alice would be 10. In this picture, she appears a younger child as she was in the above referenced garden-photo, which portrait was taken about the same time as the "beggar girl", cica 1858-59, when Alice was 6-7 years old.
I don't think it's real - their faces don't look right at all. Almost as though they have been drawn on. Also, at the bottom of the picture, you can make out the words 'Jabberwocky & Son' - so i think it's been photoshopped by a fan
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