Hats and Braids and Umbrellas, Atmospheric Japanese Mounted Group Photograph with School Photo on Reverse antique breadboard I love the blue stripe

I love the blue stripe around the middle

This one has clearly seen a lot of use over the past 100+ years

5 1/2 t x 6 3/4 x 2 and in good structural condition

One of the things I really love about old wooden stools is that typically they've been put to hard use

Hats and Braids and Umbrellas, Atmospheric Japanese Mounted Group Photograph with School Photo on Reverse antique breadboard I love the blue stripeA very beautiful image I think, though I don't know what all of these men and mostly young women were gathered for in their coats and hats with umbrellas in hand, though, they were clearly prepared to be out in the elements. What a field of faces, captured in their beautiful singularity and yet so much appearing of a unified whole, as if in uniform, and with long pigtail braids hanging past the shoulders of almost every young woman. Looking rather as