Young Men, Half Submerged, Barely There Antique RPPC easter eggs rarer to find

rarer to find

just breaks my heart

But with a little research I've learned that the Rosse who signed the underside was Jerry Rosse

with a furrow on the back side that runs horizontally from it

and his loving treatment of the box they're housed in makes me prize them too

Young Men, Half Submerged, Barely There Antique RPPC easter eggs rarer to findLots of photos I really love this week many of them purchased at the Photographic Historical Society of New England's annual Photographica sale last weekend in Newton, MA, this real photo postcard among them. Super ethereal, but with the faces and bodies of these young men quite clear as they emerge from the water, with beautiful ripples to the surface right around them too. Very poetic feeling, but also with a bit of a Lord of the Flies aspect to it