Stunning c. 1880s-90s Shoe Makers Occupational Mounted Albumen Photo, Photographer AE Alden, Boston bird it's quite special

it's quite special

with a silver cartouche at the center of the lid that was not engraved (but could yet be

) Subtle X's up the front like laces

and the more ups and downs the faster they go

what is being charted here--and that glorious orange and yellow suggests lots of fire:)--but to this Western eye

Stunning c. 1880s-90s Shoe Makers Occupational Mounted Albumen Photo, Photographer AE Alden, Boston bird it's quite specialI love an old occupational photo nothing like pride in profession on full display but have seen enough that it takes a really great one to stop me, which I think this one is. (See details.) An incredible array of faces, for sure (what a cast of characters!) but this gang of shoemakers went full out to showcase their labors for this photograph, holding a variety of shoe forms and staining brushes of and wearing aprons so stained I thought at first