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Vintage 1949 Mr Doc Small Porch House Snapshot Photo B&W Scalloped Original
Vintage original photo with fading, creases, stains, surface scuffs, edge wear, and slight curl; reverse toned with soiling, stamped number, and ink inscription.
Original vintage 1949 black-and-white gelatin-silver snapshot photograph depicting a man identified as Mr. "Doc" Small seated on the front steps of a house porch.
The view looks straight up a concrete walkway toward a frame house with deep covered porch, square columns, and horizontal siding, with the man in a suit sitting at center, a child's tricycle and potted containers arranged along the left side of the porch, and a simple chair and household items grouped at right, emphasizing everyday domestic and family life around the home and front yard planting beds.
The image is printed on glossy photo paper with scalloped white borders and exhibits soft overall contrast and fading from age, scattered small spots and soiling, surface handling marks, a noticeable vertical crease running down from the upper edge through the porch area, a soft horizontal bend near the lower margin, and light edge and corner wear consistent with mid‑century snapshot handling and storage.
The reverse side shows age-toned blank photo paper with a black stamped number "507" and a handwritten blue-ink inscription reading "Mr. 'Doc' Small 1949," providing both identification and precise dating for the scene.
This is a loose, unmounted, unframed original photograph suitable for collections focused on houses and porches, named sitters, and mid‑twentieth‑century domestic and family-life imagery.
MSC192-119
