Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo vintage Japanese hand puppet and more fun

and more fun

and what a feeling of energy and resolve to the drawing

Soft leather

blue sky behind him

letters of the same type

Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo vintage Japanese hand puppet and more funI 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