Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" civilization measures 11" tall and 8"

measures 11" tall and 8" across at widest

and will never pass them by if I can help it

but all of the ones I can find other there are marked one way or another and this one is not

with backs featuring a young Hawaiian woman with cards spread out in front of her and a lei around her neck

Feels like fall with Halloween around the corner

Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" civilization measures 11" tall and 8"The caption here tells us its a Colonial era parlor scene, and it seems clear that the woman at the center of the image (with an insane looking bright red smile) is giving a curtsy (a courtesy), but the way in which the photographic image has faded while the painting over top has remained turns the whole thing quite surreal. (Which one might say this sort social ceremony was is to begin with!) There is also a woman in white in the background who keeps