Rural South Carolina, c. 1890-1900, Pair of Early Kodak Snapshots turning gears 17 1/4 including hook (original)

17 1/4 including hook (original) x 10 1/2” w x about 4” d

I know it is hard to feel scale in photos

selling for several hundred dollars each--many later editions were to follow

with the wax of his face having aged to nearly black

Replacement lid sits flush where it should be is not functional as a closure

Rural South Carolina, c. 1890-1900, Pair of Early Kodak Snapshots turning gears 17 1/4 including hook (original)I purchased this pair from a favorite dealer in Cohoes, NY, who always has lots of interesting photographs. They are early Kodaks, c. 1890s very early 1900s I believe. On the back of one is written "SC" and on the other, the lower photo in first image, "Negro cabin, SC". I must say that I was first struck by them formally the composition of the first one, with wooden pole a perfect vertical in the foreground echoed by the pipe rising tall from the