Boy Commanding Dog, Onlookers, Platform, Amazing and Intense 1918 Snapshot Photo book shaped inlaid box smaller pedestal: 2 1/2" tall

smaller pedestal: 2 1/2" tall

Great label

Surely once part of a pair

I'm pretty certain Selina Pierson was the sister of Cornelius Pierson

Boy Commanding Dog, Onlookers, Platform, Amazing and Intense 1918 Snapshot Photo book shaped inlaid box smaller pedestal: 2 1/2" tallI find this snapshot quite extraordinary. In the foreground, this child with arm raised in a gesture that feels quite loaded at the moment commanding the attention of his dog, who stands at keen attention. And with that gesture perfectly echoed by the diagonal of the stairs and rails of the platform in the background, also by the diagonal of the of the bodies of two black men at left who have turned to watch. It feels as though the whole scene was