Maison de la Famille Lassagne, September 22, 1897, by Eugène Trutat, (cropped very slightly by me) via Bibliothèque de Toulouse Commons on flickr.
Category: vintage landscape
Vintage landscape: autumn
“Autumn,” 1915, an autochrome by Robert Walrond, via Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa).
The Sunday porch: Sogn, Norway
Possibly a café, Sogn area, Norway, between 1897 and 1904, by Nils Olsson Reppen, via Fylkesarkivet (County Archives) i Sogn go Fjordane Commons on flickr.
Across the road, the sign on the house reads, “Logi for reisende. Udsalg av mad, Kaffe og Brus” (“Lodging for travellers. Sale of food, coffee and fizzy lemonade”).
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Vintage landscape: wishful thinking
Cross Manor, near St. Mary’s City, Maryland, 1936 or 37, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Some big boxwood love. The house (with 110 acres) still exists and may be the oldest in Maryland. Click here to see photos from 2013, when Ted Koppel lived there.
Vintage landscape: Cairo, Egypt
“Cairo’s public gardens on Gezireh,” between 1950 and 1977, hand-colored slide by Matson Photo Service, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This garden may have been located on or near the current site of the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
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