Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo with stains

with stains

incurred during the firing

it went through the mail after all

who we knew from the other drawings was very interested in the fashions of the day

These were made manually by hammering steel (and in this case one brass on each) nails into olive wood balls

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo with stainsThis envelope alone feels like a novel to me and what better name for a heroine (in my mind the addressee is a young woman) than R. F. Lovelee? This R. F Lovelee presumably was staying at the Seneca Hotel, built in 1847 in the French Renaissance manner, and by the 1920s Rochester's largest hotel, with over 500 rooms. But if this letter, mailed two months before the stock market crash that would launch the Great Depression, ever reached her, it appears