This is another of my favorite photos from the Dobb Long Book because it exemplifies that snooty impression that so many men tried to exude (and yet failed at miserably). This fellow has the Oriental smoking cap, mustache/whiskers, and tweedy suit with a dotted tie. Interesting, he has some sort of jewelry on the base …
My mother used to read me the story of The Old Woman and Her Pig, an English fairy tale in which a woman buys a pig at the market, but can’t get it over the stile in the fence. I can clearly remember asking what a stile was and the wonderful interplay between me and …
Three cute kids, two in matching outfits. The girls don’t look terribly happy to be having their picture made and the baby just looks adorably bewildered. At first I thought the child in the center back was a boy, but then spotted the hair bows laying across her shoulders. Because the two older girls have …
I don’t know whether to say this lady is plain or what. She has a nice face, smooth skin, normal features, except her upper lip seems to not be very prominent, suggesting she hasn’t got any teeth, but what a terrible assumption to make. So, I am going to postulate she has a terrible underbite …
For the life of me, this lady’s hairstyle looks like she has a hat on, but I know it’s just her hair. She has quite a lot of embellishment to her dress, actually, with lace cuffs, a frilly jabot and lace collar, plus the buttons on either side of the bodice. Such a lot of …
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