Trail of Smoke Across Hazy Blue Sky, Poignant 1969 Kodak Snapshot greenland 11 1/2" long x 5"

11 1/2" long x 5" deep x 2 5/8" tall

iron/steel rather than brass

I find this second grader's drawing from 1945 really pretty touching--I'd guess created while his father was on leave from WWII

and bright blue cast lead shoes

The second to last photograph of a pile of blocks shows some more of the other plain ones--again

Trail of Smoke Across Hazy Blue Sky, Poignant 1969 Kodak Snapshot greenland 11 1/2" long x 5"The date at the bottom of this color Kodak print is Feb 69, with its presence I think enhancing the poignance of what already feels like a pretty poignant photo. A launch and trail of white smoke vertically across a blue sky, which I find hard to look at without imagining a crash. Of a period filled with hope and despair, optimism about the future and unthinkable losses. Blue above but red on the horizon. And looks a bit like a bolt of lightening at