Homemade Antique Stereoview, Seated Woman in Hat in Landscape handmade scrap book I love Victorian cube puzzles

I love Victorian cube puzzles though am picky about which ones--this one

especially one on wheels

also gradually tapering

edited by Ron Padgett

Homemade Antique Stereoview, Seated Woman in Hat in Landscape handmade scrap book I love Victorian cube puzzlesI just love this image of young woman in fancy hat perched on what looks like a tree stump, hands folded primly on her knee and gazing off into space looking quite contemplative. There seems to me a certain absurdity to it all out in the middle of nowhere posing for a serious portrait but I also find a certain poignancy to it, as if a portrait of a woman stuck, looking in one direction while there is a whole world unfolding in the other (at upper