Yes, an interesting card. I've previously theorized that the original image captured on glass plate negative was landscape and Goodwin chose to make a card in portrait. That pose of Welch is catalogued in cabinet form, but I haven't been able to study it. Would be interesting to see if the cabinet is portrait or landscape.
The Brooklyn minis do give a similar but different appearance for reasons explored in the book.
There are some other cards in which the cabinets the cards are based on are trimmed or covered in a fashion that leaves larger "white" areas. Cards such as McGunnigle and every Browns Champ and Gypsy Queen.
There are also quite a few vignette portraits that make a transition to a white background . . . portraits such as Anson, Honest John Kelly, and Phenomenal Smith (I'm sure there are others).
Nice card of Smiling Mickey.
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