The Sunday porch: Orange, Texas

Orange, Texas, May 1943, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Orange, located on the Sabine River, is a deep-water port to the Gulf of Mexico. (It is also the easternmost city in Texas.) A U.S. naval station opened there during WWII, providing a significant boost to the local economy.

The front walk

The garden at Weilmoringle sheep station, Weilmoringle, New South Wales, 1910, by Edward Challis Kempevia Trove of the National Library of Australia.

Saurbæjarkirkja, Iceland

Saurbær Church, Saurbæjarkirkja, Iceland, ca. 1900, by Frederick W. W. Howell, Cornell University Library, via Cornell University Library Commons on flickr.

This now rare turf church still exists. You can see it in 2015 here.

Garden visit


The castle garden of St. Fagans National Museum of History, June 1, 1951, by Geoff Charles, via The National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru on flickr (cropped slightly by me).

Geoff Charles was a photojournalist for Welsh newspapers such as The Wrexham Star, The Montgomeryshire Express, and Y Cymro.

Upper Yarra, Victoria

A camp in an Eden-like spot in the forest of the Upper Yarra Valley, Victoria, 1906, by Archibald James Campbell, via Museums Victoria Collections (under CC license).

Campbell was an ornithologist and a naturalist, and he made early use of nature photography to record his fieldwork.