Old and New Hoovers, Old Black and White Snapshot Native American earrings bent at the knee

bent at the knee

with one small chip in the wood on one side

And pulling out the drawers reveals that each was carefully crafted of cigar box wood

I keep an eye out for old occupational photographs portraying workers in their environments

A fun piece of history

Old and New Hoovers, Old Black and White Snapshot Native American earrings bent at the kneeA portrait of the old Hoover and new "Hoover machines," as inscribed on the back of the photo, standing side by side as if conversation about the nature of hoover ing and engaged in a passing of the torch! A fun one for sure, but also at least for those who feel a certain empathy for objects rather melancholic, too; what is to become of the old Hoover? A pretty great distillation of machine age values pointing ever forward toward the latest model,