Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" china paint but it seems to me

but it seems to me that anything that consumed such time

I'm not entirely certain the various printmaking processes involved in producing it

I believe just a bit earlier than the others

and then dressed in this crocheted onesie

or narcissus

Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" china paint but it seems to meThe caption here tells us its a Colonial era parlor scene, and it seems clear that the woman at the center of the image (with an insane looking bright red smile) is giving a curtsy (a courtesy), but the way in which the photographic image has faded while the painting over top has remained turns the whole thing quite surreal. (Which one might say this sort social ceremony was is to begin with!) There is also a woman in white in the background who keeps