Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo 1980s manufactured by Kamkap Inc

manufactured by Kamkap Inc

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with a terrific sheen to the dark wood

Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo 1980s manufactured by Kamkap IncI found this one at Brimfield, in a pile along with two wonderful hand painted tintypes I sold last week. An albumen photo I believe, with a clarity and quality of detail that is just fantastic and makes these women, their house and trees and chickens! feel almost surreally vivid and alive. I've always got an eye out for things that feel like inspiration for a novel yet to be written, and this photograph feels like that to me. On reverse, an