Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing 3 1/2” l x 1

3 1/2” l x 1 5/8” w x 2” t and in very good condition apart from lost tusks with a few irregularities in the stone as documented

with just a couple of matchsticks missing from the very outside edge

or an accountant--though I always root for surprises

with hand-painted paper label

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing 3 1/2” l x 1I know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall