Small park in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942, by John Vachon for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Category: architecture
Vintage landscape: Tokyo
Shichūhan’ei tanabata matsuri (The city flourishing, Tanabata Festival), 1857, by Andō Hiroshige, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The print shows tall bamboo decorated with cutout ornaments and paper streamers bearing wishes above Tokyo’s rooftops during the festival, which begins on July 7. Tanabata, or “evening of the seventh,” honors the yearly meeting of two deities/stars/lovers, Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair).
The Sunday porch: the P.O.
Vintage landscape: balustrade
Pond at the house entrance of “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).
The house was built in 1849 and still exists.
The Sunday porch: ice cream
“Waiters at Day and Brothers Ice Cream Saloon,” 1880, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, by William H. Stauffer, via Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, The New York Public Library.
The image is not very clear, but it looks like a fun place. The same company still exists at the location shown above as Day’s Ice Cream. It is Ocean Grove‘s oldest continuously operating business.
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