Absence/Presence: Scratched Out Negative Cabinet Card Obfuscating Figure lion soap dish It was done by an

It was done by an Isabella Caroline Thompson

holding a cache of collected rocks or shells

though it dates from the mid- to late 20th century

which appears to have been given to an Edmund Hawley of Norfolk (CT I believe) from an Alanson Bunnel on Dec

Absence/Presence: Scratched Out Negative Cabinet Card Obfuscating Figure lion soap dish It was done by anI've seen a number of old photos at this point with subjects cut out or scratched out or otherwise omitted, which are always interesting and invite the invention of a story but this cabinet card is just about my favorite I've ever seen, with the very committed scratching out of one of the six figures done on the negative before printing the positive. I love the intensive markmaking itself, and the way it first reads as if the very long hair of a woman