Stunning Early Microphoto (c. 1870s) of Blood Disks, Pepperell, MA folk art key holder with steel wrapped ferrule

with steel wrapped ferrule

was Joel Resnicoff

This sweet kitty seems to me at the opposite end of the spectrum than the more common sock monkey--positively refined

hand-drawn in black and yellow ink and mailed in 1907 from Halifax

Stunning Early Microphoto (c. 1870s) of Blood Disks, Pepperell, MA folk art key holder with steel wrapped ferruleI bought and sold two other microphotographs of blood disks (taken under a microscope) by this same Dr. S. W. Fletcher of Pepperell, MA c. 1870s several months ago, and went back to my source to buy one more as I think they're so beautiful. I've learned that William Henry Fox Talbot (18001877) was taking photographs through a microscope as early as 1837, but it was really in the second half of the 19th century, first in Germany, that technologies