These are summer flowers, but the picture captures a late fall mood.
An autochrome still life, probably taken in Sweden, ca. 1910s, by John Jäderström, via Tekniska museet on flickr (under CC license).
Category: design
The Sunday porch: Halloween
Front porch of a farmhouse ready for Halloween, near Elderon, Wisconsin, 1994, by John N. Vogel for an Historic American Building Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The HABS noted the house’s “prominent front porch with Tuscan columns and hipped roof” and called it “a good example of the Gabled Ell form” of Wisconsin vernacular architecture. There are wider views here.
Calculations
“6th Division mathematics class on a street paving problem,” Washington, D.C., ca. 1899, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Before she became immersed in the work of photographing old houses and gardens, Johnston was a photojournalist and a portraitist. In 1899, she became interested in progressive education and made a photo survey of students at public schools in Washington, D.C.
The Sunday porch: Franklin, Louisiana
“Thebideau cabin,” near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston for her Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The front yard is very neat. Two old tires protect the daisies and the little tree.
Cincinnati, Ohio
“Fire prevention week in Cincinnati, Ohio,” October 1938, by John Vachon for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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