Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo lacquer snuff box Possibly Zanesville

Possibly Zanesville

so think this is about that age

including how to fit long words in dense areas

There is one tiny bit of what looks like brown paper caught inside the frame

So many different sorts of whimsies to love

Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo lacquer snuff box Possibly ZanesvilleI found this one at Brimfield, in a pile along with two wonderful hand painted tintypes I sold last week. An albumen photo I believe, with a clarity and quality of detail that is just fantastic and makes these women, their house and trees and chickens! feel almost surreally vivid and alive. I've always got an eye out for things that feel like inspiration for a novel yet to be written, and this photograph feels like that to me. On reverse, an