Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy I love the fact that

I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning interest in the natural world

This is a beautifully made

what an amazing set they would have made

several pages of penmanship practice ("quarrelsome people are dangerous companions"--twice for good measure

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy I love the fact thatI find this photograph very beautiful, and poignant I presume a father and son, though perhaps brothers, the elder in what appears to be the attire of a tradesman or laborer, the younger carefully groomed and wearing a pinstriped suit, suggesting very different sorts of lives and livelihoods but with their hands, side by side in similar positions, together gripping the same ornate Victorian piece of wicker furniture in front of them. A wonderfully