Buggy, Cabin, Sense of Drama, Striking Antique Gelatin Silver Print antique french miniature portrait with metal plates mending an

with metal plates mending an old split from either side

with a fold line down the center

What I especially love is that pierced into the wood at one end are two old tin litho tobacco tags

with these thin black threads tethering the two together

Maybe not a masterpiece

Buggy, Cabin, Sense of Drama, Striking Antique Gelatin Silver Print antique french miniature portrait with metal plates mending anTo my eye a super striking and evocative antique photograph, which feels a lot like a film still, and definitely as if capturing a scene from a much longer novel: what are the stories of these four (five), and the picture taker too, and what has brought them together here? Heading west I might guess, standing for the moment in what feels quite like the dry middle of nowhere. 4 x 4 15 16 and in good antique condition, very late 19th very early 20th c.