. . . for a baseball match between the Republican and Democratic teams of the House of Representatives, March 10, 1926, presumably in Washington, D.C.
I like it that they are all playing in suits and ties.
Photo via National Photo Company Collection of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
— Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations
Ford Motor Co. snow plows, ca. 1910 – 1925, possibly in Washington, D.C., National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow. . .— Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “The Snow-Storm“
“Most sources seem to agree that the basic street snow plow (not horse-drawn or built for trains) was created in 1913,” according to the blog Landscape Management Network.
“The first street snow plow, however, wasn’t patented until the early 1920s. At the time, a New Yorker by the name of Carl Fink was the leading manufacturer of plows mounted to motorized vehicles. Today, the company is known as Fink-America and its plows are still on the market.”
This hotel garden had an interesting combination treehouse-garden seat called a shoo fly. The 10′ to 12′ elevated platforms were popular along the Gulf Coast as places to catch the breezes and maybe avoid deer flies.
The photo was taken from “the porch of the Hotel De Montrose [sic], Beloxi, Mississippi,” ca. 1895 – 1910, by the Detroit Publishing Co.* The Hotel de Montross (or Montross Hotel, later the Riviera Hotel) looked out on the waters of the Mississippi Sound.
“Anecdotal history of the early 20th century relates that the Hotel de Montross or Montross Hotel was the oldest hotel extant at Biloxi,” according to Ray Bellande of the Biloxi Historical Society. “It was operational before the first railroad was established between Mobile and New Orleans in 1870. Here on the central Beach of Biloxi and Lameuse Street, . . . the Montross Hotel was the focus of social life and fashion. Its pier was the disembarkation place for the society people arriving at Biloxi to enjoy its fine food, hospitality, and the gaiety of life, joie de vivre, that was offered to all visitors. The Montross Hotel flourished as a fine hostelry and boarding establishment until the late 1920s, when it became overshadowed by Biloxi’s modern beach front hotels. . . .”
A Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is located in approximately the same place today.
Beloxi has been a summer vacation resort since the first half of the 1800s.
*via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
“Children in chairs on lawn during afternoon rest, London County Open-air School.”
“Class on lawn, children in chairs, London Open-air School.”
Open-air schools in Europe and the U.S. were part of an effort in the first half of the 20th century to combat the rise of tuberculosis. The first — a waldeschule or forest school — was built near Berlin, Germany, in 1904.
An open-air school was created in England in 1907 by the London County Council. This may be the school pictured here. A second London school was organized in 1908. By 1937, there were 96 open-air schools in Great Britain.
Photos and captions by Bain News Service via the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (no dates provided).
ADDENDUM: More on open-air schools here, on the blog Messy Nessy Chic.
“What sorcery within a night has made a city street into a fairy glade?” Possibly Detroit, Michigan, ca. 1900-1910.
Photo and caption by Detroit Publishing Co. via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,
its white flag waving over everything . . .— Billy Collins, from “Snow Day“
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