This is a Cabinet Card that I purchased at an antique shop in Solway, Minnesota. It is probably from around 1890. Traveling photographers sometimes set up shop in a Railroad car travelling from town to town taking photos. Undercutting the prices of local photographers. The more I read about photography in it’s early days, the more I shake my head, some travelled by bicycle and slept in tents, some by horse and wagon ( really hard on the equipment) and some even had special cars that could be on train track or horse drawn. 
This is the back of the cabinet card, Gage Holloway Died 1968 Mar. Is this Gage in the photo? I did a quick search the other day and came up empty handed. We may never know. Thanks for stopping by, do come again. Just a reminder, if you feel that one of your relatives is in one of these photos please email me and I will return the photo to you:)
Update: From Iggy! Thanks!
Name: Gage T Holloway
Age: 31 in 1920 census
Estimated birth year: abt 1889
Name: Gage T Holloway
Spouse: Crecy B
Birth: abt 1889
Residence: 1920 - city, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Death: dd mm 1968 - city, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States of America
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