Wonderful c. late 20s/early 30s Snapshot of Man at Microphone Framed in Verticals carved figures inside bottles I also love how this

I also love how this relates to the tradition of fraktur style birth announcements from earlier in the century

and there appears to be a cross below the smoking fellow in tie blowing smoke rings

Philadelphia

Great aged condition

The bottle here is long gone

Wonderful c. late 20s/early 30s Snapshot of Man at Microphone Framed in Verticals carved figures inside bottles I also love how thisThe microphone glowing like a halo in front of this young man dates the photo to the late 1920s or early 30s I believe and what a wonderful sphere of focus at the center of an image that is otherwise all about straight lines! One wonders what this handsome young man was reading to his radio listeners I'd like to imagine maybe some Faulkner, or perhaps Brave New World! To my eye really a wonderful photograph, with doors upon doors receding behind him,