Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing with hand-painted paper label

with hand-painted paper label

or an accountant--though I always root for surprises

These two women look like they're having a good time

(Research has turned up other examples of these handles

9 3/4" tall with lid x 8" diameter at widest

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing with hand-painted paper labelI know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall