COVER THOSE MANTLES!.........COVER EVERY FLAT SURFACE.....WITH DRESSER DRAWER AND SHOEBOX PHOTOS.....IT'S 1860, FOLKS....AND YOU, TOO, MAY DOCUMENT YOUR FAMILY HISTORY....

 

An Alabamian, surrounded by 'cabinet' photos.......as the middle classes step up quik-n-easy 'ancestor worship' just as the upper classes had done with oil portraiture aggrandizing memory...Today, this fellow would be finger-swiping his Smartphone....and sending his images to a wireless printer or storing them 'in the Cloud' ......   

featuring an early example of a 'spice grinder'.......in an early Hubert Williams' portrait of Moi, demonstrating my 'grip'.....A 'CABINET CARD'...done in the last part of the first half of the last century....DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE 20TH C, THESE CLUTTERED MANTLES, TABLES, SHELVES, PIANOS AND DESKS....were the Nostalgia Centers of American Homes.........