Intense Woman with Elaborate Harvest Display, Antique Real Photo Postcard advertisinh with terrific banded pattern around

with terrific banded pattern around the sides created through a wax resist technique

making it seem as if our man has tears streaming down his face

He's been carefully hand-painted with a sweet face

the three Marys

but it seems perhaps kinder to leave them as companions as they have made it together thus far

Intense Woman with Elaborate Harvest Display, Antique Real Photo Postcard advertisinh with terrific banded pattern aroundQuite a bounty, quite a photo! I found this one in Lancaster County, PA, and believe it is the very elaborate spread at an early 20th c. harvest fest of some sort, complete with a very stern looking mistress of ceremonies! Gourds of many sorts and shapes and sizes, corn stalks, dried peppers, apples, grapes and, strangely, what look to be some bunches of bananas! I'm completely taken with the whole marvelous arrangement, captured in sharp focus, and