Birth Place, Unusual Antique Cabinet Card Photo of Punch Paper House Portrait Needlepoint naturally dyes wood with paperboard roofs

wood with paperboard roofs

but its of equivalent age

) Fourth quarter 20th c or so

with one loose bumper on the reverse bottom

to these wonderful

Birth Place, Unusual Antique Cabinet Card Photo of Punch Paper House Portrait Needlepoint naturally dyes wood with paperboard roofsYou know I love a photograph of an earlier photo, and a photograph of an earlier painted portrait too: technological innovations, such as the invention of the tintype, enabled the production of inexpensive copies, and hence an easier carrying forward of the past into the future. (Such richness in moments of transition and translation from one medium to another I always think.) This though is I believe is the first cabinet card I've seen capturing a