Ghostly, with Broom in Hand, Striking Antique Occupational Portrait Cabinet Card riverboat Quite a tiny treasure

Quite a tiny treasure

School girl drawings like this give me no end of joy

Clearly they are outside

a couple of minor hairline surface cracks in the bone

especially as the car itself sits atop the backdrop

Ghostly, with Broom in Hand, Striking Antique Occupational Portrait Cabinet Card riverboat Quite a tiny treasureI'm a bit obsessed with this cabinet card, which is richer and more striking in person. I guess it is dappled sunlight that is making these two men appear rather ghostly, or haunted; glowing, really but it almost seems as though the photo was shot through glass, and perhaps with some streaks and maybe a finger print on it too. Im not sure, but there is a definite sort of mystery and otherworldliness about it. I presume an occupational photo, with