Ghost Houses. 1890s.

These are favourites of mine, though I've never been able to identify the locations. The first is an idyllic domestic scene. A child and her toys take centre stage, a woman (sewing?) on a bench with two older girls, and another woman looking from a window curiously. Maybe father was the photographer. The second appears to be an elderly woman, screened from the sun by an umbrella, tended to by a maid. Maybe an old, well-to-do widow. See enlarged details below....