Proud Girl with Doll in Carriage, Wash Buckets, Linens on Clothesline, Antique Mounted Albumen Photo oil on canvas postcard an 8 inside a triangle

an 8 inside a triangle

and very lovely

the banded toning seems rather the result of being folded against another column of threads

and signed what looks to me to be R

and they make dusting off the desk or work table a pleasure

Proud Girl with Doll in Carriage, Wash Buckets, Linens on Clothesline, Antique Mounted Albumen Photo oil on canvas postcard an 8 inside a triangleHaving once spent a whole lot of time conversing with my dolls (or ordering them around), and having once saved up many weeks of allowance to buy a doll stroller to stroll them around in, I do have a particular fondness for, and sense of identification with, photographs of young girls and their doll companions. This double portrait, though, is another thing too a portrait of laundry day! In addition to the linens and rags hanging from the laundry line