Stunning 1905 "Japan Lilies" Homemade Stereoview Signed W. S.Davis leather wallet Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866-1958) was

Hiram Campbell Merrill  (1866-1958) was a Boston-born painter and engraver

I believe earlyish 19th c

With a curious hard right edge to the oval

"River People") and Papago (Tohono O'Odham) are renowned for coiled baskets like this one

Stunning 1905 "Japan Lilies" Homemade Stereoview Signed W. S.Davis leather wallet Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866-1958) wasI have an artist dealer friend in Maine who has been the source of a series of very wonderful and unusual stereoviews the dragonflies and Great Storm of 1870 hail stones last week, and these Asiatic lilies, too. Gorgeous, and with the light hitting the dark fabric backdrop, exposing ripples and folds, lending a very immediate sort of intimacy. Signed on reverse "W. Davis" and dated 1905, with a note that the photograph was printed on "Solio" paper