Curious Antique Photograph with Man in Wheelchair, Man on Crutches and Sickly Child bones presuming that was its original

presuming that was its original purpose

I am not certain the object under the bed at its foot

with the cherries a reference to his cherry tree

A handy one

clean and odor free

Curious Antique Photograph with Man in Wheelchair, Man on Crutches and Sickly Child bones presuming that was its originalA curious and I think quite compelling old photograph, late 19th early 20th c. I believe hard to know if the younger women here are the wives of the wounded, or their nurses or perhaps both. The child shadowed in the doorway with hand laid on the skirt of the older woman appears rather sickly, so I do wonder if perhaps a facility for individuals with polio? Whatever the case, a striking and moving image I think, with this cast of characters feeling