Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame folk art horse pull toy Mark Twain

Mark Twain

the design on the exterior mirrors the design on the interior

looking to me perhaps like a flurry of pale poppies

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Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame folk art horse pull toy Mark TwainI've always got an eye out for old photos of girls and their dolls in part because I love seeing the far ranging dolls themselves, and the ways they are held or otherwise situated, but even more so because I think the intensity of bonds between children and objects, and between girls (primarily, and certainly in large part because acceptably) and their dolls, is a rich and complex and interesting subject, and also poignant for those of us who as