Parlor Games Edwardian Style
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 6:58PM
Timebinder in ADULT PORTRAITS

Glass negatives of four adults having a good time posing for photographs at home, nothing very serious except for the one on the upper left perhaps. Clearly they are playing to the camera. As soon as cameras were available to anyone who could afford them, the hobby was taken up and a more relaxed, leisure time era of photography came into being. The interior and the quality of cloth and tailoring marks this as an affluent household.

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