Arthur Florence, Photo of Photo, RPPC with Shield Shaped Corner Mount Flourishes antique wedding Mendell who kept it was

Mendell who kept it was a kindred spirit--a terrible note-taker it looks to me

Photos don't do justice

never handmade and carefully watercolored ones such as this

" whose name appears inside the box too

the other boats in the background

Arthur Florence, Photo of Photo, RPPC with Shield Shaped Corner Mount Flourishes antique wedding Mendell who kept it wasThis one makes me very happy, for many reasons, including for the fact of it appearing to be a photograph of an earlier photograph of a young Arthur Florence (the framing around him is all part of the photo, it is only the shield shaped paper mounts that are pasted on top and his name written in ink.) As such, this image of Arthur Florence, and Arthur Florence himself, seem all the more beloved (and with those paper corner mounts reading very much