Cecilia Beaux (c. 1871); Broadbent and Phillips, photographer.
(Cecilia Beaux papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.)
Henry Howard Houston, Jr. (1895) by Cecilia Beaux.
The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
