Without a location, it was impossible to identify the sitter in this tintype, who according to the writing above her head was Alma Sargent. Based on her tight-fitting bodice lined with buttons, Alma sat for this portrait in the mid to late 1880s.
Sources:
19th Century Card Photos Kwik Guide by Gary W. Clark
the rescued photo 
Honestly, that face looks like a man.
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It’s so interesting that many people, including friends and others on instagram, think Alma looks masculine. I don’t really see it. ha!
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Block out everything but the face and look again. Regardless, though, I cringe at how horrible it must have been to create that wasp waist.
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The face sports a 5 0clock shadow and if you look closely you can see the absence of breast’s where their are nipples like a man.
Perhaps transgender?
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