Major Phipps on Horseback, Maryland Volunteer Infantry in Georgia, 1899 Mounted Cyanotype commemorative making for wonderful painterly surfaces

making for wonderful painterly surfaces

though pretty good in all sorts of contexts

And if my name were Deidamia Swallow

I'd guess 1960s-70s or so on the beads

I think I'd invent my own game to play with these balls

Major Phipps on Horseback, Maryland Volunteer Infantry in Georgia, 1899 Mounted Cyanotype commemorative making for wonderful painterly surfacesThe word "iconic" has become much overused, but this cyanotype struck me in that way, feeling like an iconic and very cinematic portrait of a soldier on horseback, with the striations to the sky behind him enhancing the effect, almost like some sort of otherwordly phenomenon of light or the aurora borealis! Happily, a handwritten note on the back of the mount provides full details: 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry on practice march in Georgia,