Photograph: small child on a porch, undated

A sepia-toned snapshot, sharply cropped to a square, mounted alone on the album sheet. A small light-haired child in a white short-sleeved dress sits cross-legged on a sun-dappled wooden porch floor, looking down at an object held in her lap. Behind the child rises a row of heavy turned-baluster railing whose long shadows fall in a striped pattern across the boards. Beyond the rail a wide lawn or yard runs to a low cottage or outbuilding at the horizon. No caption or annotation on the page.