scratchy daguerrotype of surprising depth
as also this
and a child
and a girl
and a mother and child
and a resolute seamstress
and some wealthy children
and two rather preoccupied children
and some carnies
and Daisy Hilton typing while her inseparable sister Viola sews, and playing their clarinets
and a man in blackface
and a place that was once, but then was not