Old Wooden House, Hagerstown MD 1911 Real Photo Postcard 18th century playing cards Around this time

Around this time

) at his bleeding cheek

a set of Authors cards

and a bit of peeling off/loss of adhesion on one part of the back side (I have not touched it

and now are pretty rare to find--after spending a little time building with this one

Old Wooden House, Hagerstown MD 1911 Real Photo Postcard 18th century playing cards Around this timeMy documentation doesn't do justice to the beauty and subtlety of this photo, which immediately reminded me of the the indexical, typological photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher. The twist, though, is the printed right border of the image, with what looks like a leaf caught just inside in the frame. Really wonderful shadows cast by the the beams of what I guess would be described as an arbor framing the front door. And if you look closely you can