Hats and Braids and Umbrellas, Atmospheric Japanese Mounted Group Photograph with School Photo on Reverse antique breadboard Pure delight finding this one

Pure delight finding this one

Sturdy and soound

5 1/2 t x 6 3/4 x 2 and in good structural condition

and learned the name of the illustrator who did it

as if made just for the personal delight of its user and no one else

Hats and Braids and Umbrellas, Atmospheric Japanese Mounted Group Photograph with School Photo on Reverse antique breadboard Pure delight finding this oneA very beautiful image I think, though I don't know what all of these men and mostly young women were gathered for in their coats and hats with umbrellas in hand, though, they were clearly prepared to be out in the elements. What a field of faces, captured in their beautiful singularity and yet so much appearing of a unified whole, as if in uniform, and with long pigtail braids hanging past the shoulders of almost every young woman. Looking rather as