Kansas Tornado Aftermath, J.S. Shaff c. 1890s Cabinet Card masonic symbols there is the end of

there is the end of an old white pipe cleaner one can glimpse in the hole between his ears

I have not documented every page but photos give a very good sense

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Kansas Tornado Aftermath, J.S. Shaff c. 1890s Cabinet Card masonic symbols there is the end ofWith a A little research I found a bit of information about the James. S. Shaff who took this photograph b. 1850, he had a photo studio in Seneca, KS from about 1885 1895, after which he became, according to census data, a band teacher in Oklahoma, and finally a farmer in New Mexico! Certainly there have been plenty of tornadoes in Kansas to document the effects of; I might guess the portrait of destruction here dates to 1895 in the aftermath of the