“Photographie de l’Od, instinct de Vie Universelle attiré par un enfant plaignant un faisan récemment tué.”
Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc (1850-1909) sought with photography to prove the existence of the human soul.
With a faint photographer’s stamp on the verso, suggesting this was taken in Tyler, Texas—otherwise unidentified.
“George Levasseur, Champion Back-Lifter of the World. Pawnee Bill’s Wild West” (ca. 1890).
