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Lot 097 - Grouping of 14 Vintage Snapshot Photographs of Costumes, Masks, and Oddities Including Grim Reaper Painted Smock, Barber Shop Gag Scene, and Camp Blanding Military Stunt
Lot 097 - Grouping of 14 Vintage Snapshot Photographs of Costumes, Masks, and Oddities Including Grim Reaper Painted Smock, Barber Shop Gag Scene, and Camp Blanding Military Stunt
Grouping of 14 vintage snapshot photographs depicting costumes, masks, and humorous or unusual subjects. Two photographs show a man identified on verso as Wallace Garland wearing a smock hand-painted with a Grim Reaper skeleton and gravestones, photographed from the front and back. Other subjects include a child in adults clothes posed beside a tree, a close-up portrait of a person wearing a grotesque mask, a staged barber shop scene with a "$1,000 Reward Dead or Alive" poster on the wall, a bearded man holding a bird, a soldier hanging by his teeth from a wooden frame, and additional scenes.
One photograph of the soldier at a military tent camp is inscribed on verso "One of the fellows in my battery hanging by his teeth. In Camp Blanding." Several photographs have deckle-edge borders. The photographs exhibit age-related toning, edge wear, and some corner losses.
Dimensions:
Dimensions of items in this lot range from 2-1/2" W x 1-5/8" H to 3-1/2" W x 5" H.
