Must of us have had the experience of looking at an old photograph and knowing where it must have been taken. There's nothing written anywhere on this picture. I could have been taken almost anywhere, but when I look at it it says Europe to me. Not the Europe of Paris, Prague or Berlin, but the Europe of a small village somewhere in eastern, or perhaps southern Europe. I'll bet the photographer was a local shop keeper who had a side line taking photos. An old piece of canvas was hung up on the wall to provide an even background, and a glass negative, the same size as the finished photo, was exposed. Maybe the married couple moved to the United States and brought this print with them.. Maybe they mailed it to their emigrant cousin. Who knows how it got here. But then again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this image was made in Iowa.
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