Fine Cigars, Saturday Evening Post, Man in Roseville/East Orange, NJ Train Station Waiting Room, 1899 Sepia Print porcelain animal --to begin with

--to begin with

In a great period frame under glass with nailed on wood back where it has lived a very long time

I find it pretty transporting

Feels like a portrait of domestic life to me

such that they could almost be flipped over to use as goblets

Fine Cigars, Saturday Evening Post, Man in Roseville/East Orange, NJ Train Station Waiting Room, 1899 Sepia Print porcelain animal --to begin withThis is a relatively small photograph, dated 1899 on reverse, but if one needed to precisely recreate the interior of a turn of the century train station waiting room, this would be all that one would need, right down to specific signage and inventory of papers and publications being sold. Wonderful richness of detail, including what looks like a lively conversation going on between the station master and another man at far right, light spilling in