Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing Blocks are 1 1/8" cubed

Blocks are 1 1/8" cubed

with hand-painted paper label

with just a couple of matchsticks missing from the very outside edge

or an accountant--though I always root for surprises

(Research has turned up other examples of these handles

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing Blocks are 1 1/8" cubedI know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall