Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post antique photos This wonderful cyanotype does invite

This wonderful cyanotype does invite filling in a backstory

but very stable and sound

Here's another that brings me pure joy (and which I''d be very glad to keep for myself)--to my eye really a perfect painting

Surface aging as evident but completely indestructible

Inside pages show minor age toning and a few small stains along bottom edge on the first few pages

Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post antique photos This wonderful cyanotype does inviteI find the clean, bold, hand painted black letters against oyster white ground here satisfying and quite beautiful, but most of all, when I found this, I was thinking about all of the contexts in which might resonate and situations it might serve to contextualize earnestly and poignantly, and critically satirically, all. No end of possibilities. In its black against white capital lettered spareness and declarativeness, it makes me think of I Am A Man