Hand-painted necktie, iron-on image
Raccoon editor's late mother as a young and beautiful woman.
The old snapshot, taken from her 1920'-30's photo album - one of those small pictures with the jagged edges and held down by black corner brackets - was probably taken with a Brownie.
This picture cropping emerged from a photo Emailed to a friend this morning & reminded me of a church window here in Waukesha I once photographed and likewise cropped, for emphasis on the upturned eyes of the woman. This stained glass window with the anchor (bottom photo) was later determined to be a Christian symbol of hope.
The neck-tied picture of the beautiful young woman was certainly unposed, while she leaned against a jitney. Snapped by a box camera - and years later transferred by today's technology to a washable iron-on image and now worn by her son in his later years.............
There must be something poetic in that, but Idon't see it.
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