Burning Oil Tank, Parker PA, Early 20th Century Real Photo Postcard wall plaque This is one of new

This is one of new batch of antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

were definitely a thing in 19th and early 20th century American painting

at least references that of a Japanese Mizushashi or cold water container

Pretty fun--with a bit of a 'break in the case of emergency' sensibility

and dated November 12

Burning Oil Tank, Parker PA, Early 20th Century Real Photo Postcard wall plaque This is one of newHoly moly, I could look at this image forever. Beyond simply standing as a cool, very early 20th century first hand document of a burning oil tank in Parker, PA (located in Armstrong County, in the Allegheny River Valley), I find the combination of lush, spectacular smoke cloud against spare landscape and minimalist oil tank formally PERFECT. And then also a terrific tension between the intense smoke and the two bushes or trees on the horizon to its