Chewing the Rag: Antique Mounted "Ectoplasm" Spirit Photo with Two Women. late 19th/early 20th c. vintage watercolor sets I'm including with this one

I'm including with this one a small booklet that features a section of Block Designs to be recreated with the blocks

and the White House

I love her narrow hips in relation to her broad shoulders

with this wrapped vertical edge angled to a sharp point

which I found yesterday in New Hampshire and believe dates to the about the first decade of the 20th century

Chewing the Rag: Antique Mounted "Ectoplasm" Spirit Photo with Two Women. late 19th/early 20th c. vintage watercolor sets I'm including with this oneA very curious one, which I think one could write a whole book about! I am no expert on "spirit " photograph, but this seems to be an example though perhaps a very self aware or even tongue in cheek one specifically portraying (via a length of what I presume is cheesecloth stretching between the mouths of these two women) an "ectoplasmic" event. And then above the mounted photo, written in ink: "chewing the rag," an expression, English in origin and