On September 21, 1908, rich Chatterton sent miss Gladys Rogers of Baker City, Oregon, a postcard urging her to “pack your suitcase” and come for a visit. The message on the back of the card doesn’t even mention the remarkable studio photograph on its front.
Dressed in a suit, bowler hat, bow tie and polished shoes, rich looks down at Ted, who I think we can assume is his dog. Their names are written in pen at the bottom of the card. sitting on a straight-backed chair, Ted looks directly into the camera, clutching a pipe in his jaws and using a fez that seems to have been improvised out of a can decked with a feather. rich has a pipe in his left hand, too. I guess this is meant to be a picture of two buddies enjoying a smoke…. I provided a talk last night in Maryland where found myself talking about the humor connected with pet keeping at some length. Pet keeping is typically a form of play.
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