View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere old wooden t-square deeply hand-carved letters

deeply hand-carved letters

not including the extending parts it measures 1 1/2" w + d

with the slightly irregular spacing and right justification lending a sense of syncopation to the words themselves (as if Ringo Starr were being implied

Camden Town

There is a hard board top that fits over the tray that measures 10 13/16” square

View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere old wooden t-square deeply hand-carved lettersQuite an unusual one, a late 19th very early 20th c. cyanotype, which I know came out of a Los Angeles estate. I've recently been looking at old photographs of empty spaces sets like a rare photobooth photo absent a person, which I really coveted and this feels akin to me; a view from the stage of an empty theatre. All about stage setting, and anticipation, and absence, too. With these elaborately draped stars and stripes banners everywhere, and