You don't get more real than a snapshot going back to the dawn of photography itself. Especially when you can see creases left by many decades of gentle handling. The vast majority on display here are family photographs. Wedding pictures from the roaring twenties. Cherubic toddlers who most likely have long passed on. Courting couples at the very beginning of a lifetime together. Married couples whose grave faces reflect the seriousness of this rare occasion. These are the photographs we inherit from our ancestors. Or they come into our lives, wrapped up in an origin story - as someone else's forgotten keepsakes. Sometimes, they are puzzles through which we try to make sense of a stranger's yesterdays. But here and there, something surprising. A young woman with a pet coyote. An early twentieth century ice cream parlour. 19th century tintype locket, most likely from the Civil War era. Cast photos from a late 1800 production of The Mouse Trap. A photo taken from a grain elevator, to show a small town's past. A group of children posing wwith a goat cart. One photo card shows a one-armed, multi-instrumentalist from the early 1900s.
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