The tour

garden-visit-1950s-baden-wurtenburg-germany-nationaal-archiefs-netherlands“Hilde Eschen (right) with two women in the garden of Weikersheim Castle,” Baden-Württemberg, Germany, July 1959, by Willem van de Pollvia Nationaal Archief (Netherlands).

Eschen was the photographer’s wife.

The Sunday porch: Natchez, Mississippi

commerce-st-natchez-ms-ca-1900-stewart-bros-mississippi-dept-of-archives-flickrHomes on North Commerce Street, Natchez, Mississippi, ca. 1900, by Robert Livingston or William Percy Stewart, via Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

The Stewart brothers were local amateur photographers. A search on Google Maps shows that these houses still stand, but without the elaborately turned post columns of the house on the right.

The Sunday porch: Raleigh County

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A home in Raleigh County, West Virginia, May 1996, a 35 mm slide by Lyntha Scott Eiler for the Coal River Folklife Project and the American Folklife Center, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Two styles

two-styles-savannah-ga-habs-library-of-congressIron and picket fences, East Henry Street, Victorian Historic District, Savannah, Georgia, 1979, by Walter Smalling, Jr., for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.