Potato Sack Race, Two Views, Vintage Two Frame Contact Strip carved wood box or all sorts of other

or all sorts of other things

Folder: 12 1/4 x 10 1/16

I know that he was pulled out of an old estate in Deerfield

and I think the pattern on the punch paper on front and back is really cool (looks as if it was printed or colored that way as a guide but never embroidered

Potato Sack Race, Two Views, Vintage Two Frame Contact Strip carved wood box or all sorts of otherI was am struck by the excellent juxtaposition of views here: at top a perfectly staggered line up of five young potato sack race competitors in profile, ready to go, (and in perfectly descending size), and below, three facing squarely front, again forming a perfect diagonal (with one rear end as punctuation!) I'm not entirely sure how to articulate it, but to me the effect is a sense of simultaneity, as if the photographer were standing in two places