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LL/104139
Unidentified photographer
1900s (early)
Duelling housekeepers
[Doppelgängers and spectres, early 1900s]

Gelatin silver print
Manchester University - John Rylands Library
Image Number: JRL15080361, Reference Number: VPH.15.16
 
Duelling housekeepers. The print is an example of Victorian photographic trickery. A woman faces her double, both are stood either side of a set of garden steps; one wields a broom and the other a dustpan.
 
LL/104139


 

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