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Original antique late 19th- or early 20th-century sepia cabinet card photograph featuring a family standing in front of a stone farmhouse with a fenced yard and wide front porch.
The composition shows several women, a man, and two children posed in the grass along the picket fence, including a young boy at left holding a violin and bow and a small girl in a white dress near the porch steps, while patterned curtains fill the window openings and the stone walls and turned porch posts provide a detailed architectural backdrop.
Printed in warm sepia tones as a photographic image on paper mounted to a thick brown card support in cabinet card format, the piece combines domestic family portraiture with documentary views of a farmhouse and yard setting.
The reverse of the mount carries a red studio imprint reading Fowler View Co., 325 and 327 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa, identifying the photographer and geographic origin in the United States.
Suitable for collections focused on families, farmhouses, vernacular architecture, or Midwestern social history, the photograph is offered as a single original unframed cabinet card, with any brass display easel, ruler, or other props visible in the listing photos shown for scale and presentation only and not included.
