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Original vintage sepia-tone gelatin-silver photograph featuring a studio family portrait of a man, woman, and two boys posed together.
The composition presents the father and elder son in dark three-piece suits with ties, the younger child in a light collared outfit in the foreground, and the mother in a blouse with a long necklace at right, all arranged before a softly rendered interior backdrop, creating a strong domestic and family life, people, and portrait image suited to genealogy, social history, and vernacular photography collections.
Printed on photographic paper with subtle hand tinting and housed in its original textured gray folding card mount with an embossed decorative arched window mat, the piece carries along the lower front margin the studio imprint \"A Portrait by O. L. Porley, 6880 Grand River, Detroit, Mich.\", while the back of the folder bears a decorative embossed emblem and the \"PAT. APPLD FOR\" legend; the photograph is matted but not framed, and any rulers or paper notes shown in the photos are for reference only and are not included.
