Farmhouse porch with plants in painted lard buckets, Morehead, Kentucky, 1940, by Marion Post Wolcott for U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
I wish we could see the colors of the painted* containers.
Two special supports were built along the front of the porch to display the plants. (There’s a third view of the house here.)
*Here, here, and here are examples of 1930s interior paint color combinations.
Two women playing badminton or lawn tennis while others look on, “The Oaks,” Galveston,Texas, ca. 1900, via Texas State Archives Commons on flickr.
The park of a Baroque villa or palace, location unknown, 1900, by Hugo Simbergin, via Finnish National Gallery on flickr.
My first “Sunday porch,” from August 2013. . .
Strawberry Hill plantation, Greene County, Alabama, in 1939, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The front porch is often a box seat for the theater of the garden or the street. This one seems to have half drawn its curtains against the buzzing, chirping action of the cottage garden below.
The mid-19th century house still exists, although without the vines and flowers. Its surrounding land is now a cattle ranch.
“Fuchsias at Stureparken, Stockholm, Sweden. Photographed in June 1912 at the Olympic Games,” an autochrom by John Jäderström, via Tekniska Museet Commons on flickr.
The Stureparken is a small park in a wealthy area of Stockholm near the Östermalm Athletic Grounds, site of the 1912 Games’ equestrian, fencing, and tennis events.
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