Curious Antique Photograph with Man in Wheelchair, Man on Crutches and Sickly Child photo of portrait painting 25ʺD × 4

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which pulls off to reveal the original cork and metal stopper

I believe likely German made and classifiable as "putz" (composition)

)  What we know from Royer's beautifully hand-lettered annotation at lower left is that the metal on the cocktail glass rendered is silver

Curious Antique Photograph with Man in Wheelchair, Man on Crutches and Sickly Child photo of portrait painting 25ʺD × 4A curious and I think quite compelling old photograph, late 19th early 20th c. I believe hard to know if the younger women here are the wives of the wounded, or their nurses or perhaps both. The child shadowed in the doorway with hand laid on the skirt of the older woman appears rather sickly, so I do wonder if perhaps a facility for individuals with polio? Whatever the case, a striking and moving image I think, with this cast of characters feeling