Plant Samples - Corn and Beans, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 4 couple with umbrella The Guardian

The Guardian

with wear to the exterior cloth-bound cover and some spot staining to the inside pages throughout

snapping closed nicely at the top

I've just learned this piece is a quintessential example of the recent work of Bowdoinham

where it seems this postcard originated

Plant Samples - Corn and Beans, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 4 couple with umbrella The GuardianI found together a total of eleven of these rppcs documenting the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know, quite unusual. The fact that they were produced as postcards suggests they were made to be sent, but the backs are all blank, so perhaps they just served as