Lincoln Baths, Saratoga, c. 1930 Historic Photo in Original Frame with Engraved Plate folk art sandpiper and all the better for

and all the better for the white circles and black numbers of their tops

I really love its moodiness and elusiveness

The stone is a beautiful deep marbled green

floppy ears I'd guess represents a hound of some sort

Photos don’t convey the sense of aged warmth of the grey board to which the watercolor is mounted

Lincoln Baths, Saratoga, c. 1930 Historic Photo in Original Frame with Engraved Plate folk art sandpiper and all the better forI found this just down the road from Saratoga, NY, where it was taken just shy of 100 years ago I believe, documenting a "Bath Room Section" of the famous Lincoln Bath just after the facility opened to the public. (The first Lincoln baths building opened in 1915 then was destroyed by a fire in 1927; the "new" building, still standing, was completed in 1929 and opened in 1930 to the public, designed by William E. Haugaard (1889 1949) who studied at