1800s: Shots of man writing at desk.
United States 1800s: A young man in a period white shirt sits at an antique wooden slant-front desk, dipping a quill pen and writing in a ledger or journal. He is shown in profile and from behind, bent over the open book with papers spread across the desk surface, pausing occasionally to consider his writing. The reenactment costume and setting suggest a historical figure such as a bookkeeper, composer, or writer, possibly evoking Stephen Foster.
Subjects:
1800s
19th century
accounting
antique furniture
archival footage
bookkeeping
brass hardware
candlelight era
composer
concentration
costume drama
desk drawer
handwriting
historical figure
historical reenactment
history
indoor scene
ink
journal
ledger
musician
office
paper
period costume
period dress
profession
professional
quiet work
quill pen
sitting
slant-front desk
solitary work
stephen foster
vintage
white shirt
wooden desk
working
writer
writing desk
writing implement