Seagulls in Den Helder, the Netherlands, ca. 1910, photographer unknown, via Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
Category: landscape
Vintage landscape: white fence
Picket fence and view of Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940, by Jack Delano, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The image was taken for the U.S. Farm Security Administration on the then new Kodachrome color transparency film.
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.
Harvest
“Pumpkins in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon,” date and photographer unknown, via Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives on flickr. The image is from a collection of lantern slides of the “Visual Instruction Department.”
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