Hats and Braids and Umbrellas, Atmospheric Japanese Mounted Group Photograph with School Photo on Reverse antique breadboard Pure delight finding this one

Pure delight finding this one

Beautiful just as an object

but this little green L-shaped ranch house may just be my favorite of all--simple

with just the bottom of his stamp-collaged shorts and ink-drawn shoes peeking out below

and learned the name of the illustrator who did it

Hats and Braids and Umbrellas, Atmospheric Japanese Mounted Group Photograph with School Photo on Reverse antique breadboard Pure delight finding this oneA very beautiful image I think, though I don't know what all of these men and mostly young women were gathered for in their coats and hats with umbrellas in hand, though, they were clearly prepared to be out in the elements. What a field of faces, captured in their beautiful singularity and yet so much appearing of a unified whole, as if in uniform, and with long pigtail braids hanging past the shoulders of almost every young woman. Looking rather as