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This is an errie original photograph that was decessioned from the Valentine Museum in Richmond,Virginia. The image was photographed by George S.Cook a famed southern & Civil War photographer. The image is unsettling, if not outright macabre, showing a family consisting of four women and an elderly man posing on the lawn in front of their surreal looking mansion. Three of the ladies are dressed in mourning clothing, while one is wearing white...likely the house maid? On the far left is a ghostly figure of a man like a misplaced shadow fading into enternity. The image itself has an unnatural distortion in reflections, an eerie coldness in the color palette. All of this is contributing to a chilling sense of unease and the feeling that something is just not quite right?"
~In conclusion just by holding this photograph... you just get the feeling of being watched by unseen eyes.
NOTES: Inscription in pencil on verso indicates " Mrs. Jennings". The Jennings family was prominent in the Richmond,Virginia during this time period.
