The time period that these pictures were taken was pretty early in the life of Photography. I would think that it was quite an event and that even the non-subjects of the photograph would stop whatever they were doing to see it happen. Remember many Native Americans would not have their picture taken because they felt it would steal their souls, I've got to think it was similarly novel, even to white folk, into the teens.

I see the guy at the door in the car photo, but It looks like a butter churn & a light inside the house on the front porch photo (to me).