Buggy, Cabin, Sense of Drama, Striking Antique Gelatin Silver Print antique french miniature portrait but the engravings in this

but the engravings in this rare volume are abundant and quite marvelous

What I especially love is that pierced into the wood at one end are two old tin litho tobacco tags

(I might lay it on its side in a gesture of trying to slow things down

5 3/4" l x 2 1/4" w x 2 1/8"d and in good

Buggy, Cabin, Sense of Drama, Striking Antique Gelatin Silver Print antique french miniature portrait but the engravings in thisTo my eye a super striking and evocative antique photograph, which feels a lot like a film still, and definitely as if capturing a scene from a much longer novel: what are the stories of these four (five), and the picture taker too, and what has brought them together here? Heading west I might guess, standing for the moment in what feels quite like the dry middle of nowhere. 4 x 4 15 16 and in good antique condition, very late 19th very early 20th c.