“Decorating a soldier’s grave in one of the Negro sections on Memorial Day [1943],” Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, by Esther Bubley, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The graves of service members were segregated by race until 1948.
Mason House, near Dallas, North Carolina, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
A narrow porch for a narrow house. I think those are cannas at the bases of the columns.
This picture was published in The Early Architecture of North Carolina by Johnston and Thomas Tileston Waterman in 1941, but I can’t find out anything else about the building.
“Woman in greenhouse,” ca. 1910, an autochrome by Mrs. Benjamin F. Russell, via George Eastman Museum Commons on flickr.
I have not been able to find out anything about Mrs. Russell.
A woman admiring a garden at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, ca. 1910 to ca. 1935, via simpleinsomnia on flickr, under CC license.
On the back of the photo: “Shaw’s gardens. This gives wrong impression of you.”
“Mrs. Herman Perry in her home at Mansfield, Iron County, Michigan,” May 1937, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Look through the net curtains at her tomato plants in tin cans. I wonder if she really waited until the average last frost date* for zone 18 — which is currently between July 1 and 10 — to put them in the ground.
Lee took the photo on assignment for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. Mrs. Perry was “the wife of an oldtime iron miner who worked in the mines before they were abandoned.”
*The average first frost date is between September 1 and 10.
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