Burning Building, Super Atmospheric Old Snapshot Photo cutout animals but few if any losses

but few if any losses at all that I can see

an "Eagle" logo at the center

and will yet share

It makes me want to cook a big pot of black eyed peas in it just so that I can put it on the table

But what really makes it for me is that the book itself is a 1785 copy of the third volume of Homer's The Odyssey--the sort of iconic and resonant on so many levels book that one might choose to take to a desert island (teaching oneself French at the same time)

Burning Building, Super Atmospheric Old Snapshot Photo cutout animals but few if any lossesHow stunningly beautiful a burning building can be, and also very apocalyptic feeling. This photo is more beautiful and nuanced in hand, with a glossy surface and some silveriness to the blacks that makes it seem all the moodier and the structure all the more skeletal against the aura of white light. And very gothic feeling, I keep thinking of Poe and The Fall of the House of Usher. 4 1 2" x 3 1 2" Glossy photo, earlyish 20th century. Clipped bottom