LH_DD_Mallory_1887

Did the wagon in the foreground spill its cargo? And I love the little office in the middle, and it took me a while to figure out the little shading effect that coincides with that staircase going right upstairs. At first I thought it was an attempt to show the brick under a wash of plaster, or something architectural like that!

Antique billhead for D.D. Mallory & Co., packers of oysters and smoked fish from Baltimore and Chicago, dated 1887.

p.s. Too bad about the paste on this one. I'm rather fond of it nevertheless...