This glass plate negative is from Sam Hall’s site ChattanoogaHistory.com. He named it Wrinkles and Lace. (Sam generously let me use one of his photos in Grievous Deeds.)

There’s no information about the woman and the girl in this picture, but Sam speculates it’s a grandmother and granddaughter. The photo is peculiar—not in the traditional sense, because it just looks like a semi-formal picture of the two family members on an exceptionally clean front porch.

But the woman is very mysterious. I don’t like her looks—something about her seems wicked.  Even the expression on the little girl’s face seems a little off.

from ChattanoogaHistory.com   

Who knows though? I’m not great at reading people. I can notice things about the way a person is dressed or how they act, but I mean discerning something about who that person is just from looking at them. I know a few people who can look at someone and know immediately if that person is honest or scheming or likely to double-cross you to get ahead. And eventually they’re proven to be right! But that’s not me so take my reading of this woman and girl with a grain of salt!

What’s your impression?