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My name is Bob and I was the one that provided the pictures to Britt except for the tintype and the one marked Emma. Jerusha was my great-grandmother. Also please note on the set of four close-ups that she is wearing the same locket in the hair down picture and the tintype picture. she had that locket as a gift from her mother and was buried with it.
The Group Picture of Jerusha and her aunts was unlabeled, but I have the single picture of Jerusha as a young women with long curled hair and it is labeled as Jerusha Joslin. It is the same girl as in the group picture and even the dress looks the same except for the collar. Britt's tintype picture is also the same dress as in the group picture, but again with a different collar. I sent a copy of the group picture to another Joslyn in Michigan and he was able to identify who the aunts were. Jerusha was born in 1836 and her aunts were born in 1822 - Eliza, 1829 - Mary Ann, 1832 - Maria Frances, and 1836 - Lydia. So actually Lydia and Jerusha were the same age, and the oldest aunt (Eliza) was only 14 years older than her.
Women's dresses of that time had separate collars so the change of collars seems quite normal. I would date those pictures to around 1856-1860 which is before Jerusha was ever married. The ages of the aunts would also match with that time period. Jerusha married Jeramiah White in 1864 and Robert Park in 1870. I do have pictures of Jerusha - at age 50 years and beyond also. I also have both of her marriage certificates.
The group picture as well as a picture I have of John Joslin, Jerusha's father are the older "albumen" type photos that came out starting in 1850 and ran to around 1890 or so. Unfortunately for me I didn't find the pictures quick enough as my grandfather and great Uncle had put them away in a box in an outside shed and the mice got to them. I guess the albumen (egg whites and salt) were rather tasty and several pictures were destroyed beyond salvaging.
The picture that Britt has marked Emma could, and probably is Emma. She was 21 years younger than her sister Jerusha but they did look the same. Emma was also an Innkeeper as well as a dressmaker in Broadview, Saskatchewan before going to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her parents John and Hannah Joslin are buried in Broadview, Saskatchewan