Thanks for your response. The photo is printed on a heavy white cardboard background with rounded corners. Koons & Tucker...The Traveling Photographers...is printed at the bottom. The background looks like a screen and all of the photos are done by an oddly shaped stump. The floor looks like dirt with a few clumps of glass. It is very faded with the tannish brown coloring. We have several photos done with this same backgroung and one was a tintype. The tintype is tiny and has no photographer's mark. As far as family help, the people with the answers are deceased.
We also have a photo taken much later of what we believe to be the woman in the photo as an old woman. This photo was taken about 1900-1902. This woman we believe we know. However, her husband died in late 1862. The man in the first photo certainly fits the description of him in is Civil War papers. Both have family physical traits that fit.
Many of the fashions I have viewed in my research do not fit what I believe a farmer's wife in southern Illinois would wear in 1860. The huge hoop skirts would have been ridiculous for them. I can find few sites with what the "working" folks would wear.
Thanks!
K