Woman in Stripes, Girl on Crutches, Looking Up at Animal in Tower, Vintage Glossy Snapshot farben domino standing before him

standing before him

It is a bit hard to know where one layer of papering ends and another begins--it looks to me like the paper showing on the bottom half came after the (very lovely) hand-printed wallpaper on the top and sides--based on visible layering of the two in a few spots

earlyish 20th c I believe

and I think is quite a striking sculptural thing--with the potential to cast most excellent shadows

but also had an extensive collection of South American textiles

Woman in Stripes, Girl on Crutches, Looking Up at Animal in Tower, Vintage Glossy Snapshot farben domino standing before himI always like a photo in which the subjects are turned watching some major or minor spectacle, all the better one taking place in a tower. I'm guessing we're at the zoo here, watching some sort of animal climbing up there, maybe a monkey. Most compelling to me is the combination of postures of this woman in her stripes, hands and purse on hip, and the girl beside her, leaning on her crutch. And then some horizontal stripes to counter the vertical ones