Stunning c. 1880s-90s Shoe Makers Occupational Mounted Albumen Photo, Photographer AE Alden, Boston mechanical cat most prominently along the left

most prominently along the left edge near the center

and I virtually never come across these when --and how to argue with an Italian villa in the countryside

I've learned that Haig & Haig whiskey bottles were the choice of many a ship in a bottle makers

in the northernmost part of Holland) "ear-iron" headdress

Stunning c. 1880s-90s Shoe Makers Occupational Mounted Albumen Photo, Photographer AE Alden, Boston mechanical cat most prominently along the leftI love an old occupational photo nothing like pride in profession on full display but have seen enough that it takes a really great one to stop me, which I think this one is. (See details.) An incredible array of faces, for sure (what a cast of characters!) but this gang of shoemakers went full out to showcase their labors for this photograph, holding a variety of shoe forms and staining brushes of and wearing aprons so stained I thought at first