Ice Melting From Lake Emily, Minnesota, Early Stereoview, H.J Jacoby antique sport (I believe a rubber band

(I believe a rubber band was stretched from the end of the barrel and through the hole in front of the trigger

I wonder who the Nelly was who he or she was thinking about

I'd think the one on the right is meant to be a dove

and by whom there is one portrait in the National Portrait Gallery in London--but the sensibility is quite different so I am skeptical

Ice Melting From Lake Emily, Minnesota, Early Stereoview, H.J Jacoby antique sport (I believe a rubber bandAnother from a small, carefully chosen group of albumen photo stereoviews I purchased from a collection in mid Coast Maine last week, and which I'd be quite happy to keep for myself. This one pictures a block of ice cut from Lake Emily, as a handwritten note on the back, with label from Jaboby's Art Gallery, St. Peter, Minnesota, attests and which seems to contain a glass goblet inside of it with dramatic silhouette. Why and why??? A curious one for