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A Foundscape Vermeer in as Sea of Hats, 1903

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I've written numerous posts to this blog on very dense crowd images (just google "crowds" in the search box at left), mainly because of the endlessly interesting vignettes and foundscapes that are located int eh buried sections. Int his stereocard of a large, massed crod waiting to hear President Theodore Roosevelt speak (1903) there are a number of such finds--including what seems to be included in just about every variety of massed images, a subject from a Vermeer painting.

A detail giving a real expression of the compactness of the crowd: