Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy they are subtly visible

they are subtly visible

optimistic but not without some doubts and trepidation

The backs of these terrific old tramp art frames--late 19th or early 20th century I believe--are almost as great as their fronts

several pages of penmanship practice ("quarrelsome people are dangerous companions"--twice for good measure

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy they are subtly visibleI find this photograph very beautiful, and poignant I presume a father and son, though perhaps brothers, the elder in what appears to be the attire of a tradesman or laborer, the younger carefully groomed and wearing a pinstriped suit, suggesting very different sorts of lives and livelihoods but with their hands, side by side in similar positions, together gripping the same ornate Victorian piece of wicker furniture in front of them. A wonderfully