Children along a summer garden path, ca. 1900, via Nova Scotia Archives Commons on flickr. Click on the photo for a larger view.
Category: vintage landscape
Vintage landscape: huis Nijenburg
Another sketch by C.W. Bruinvis: the front of Nijenburg house with a wide pond, statues, and clipped hedges, Heiloo, Netherlands, 1895, via Regionaal Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
Today the estate is a nature reserve. The house, of course, is a romantic wedding venue.
There’s a 2011 photo of practically the same view as above here.
Vintage landscape: Straatweg
“Heijlo, 1789,” the Straatweg (main street), Heiloo, Netherlands, ca. 1900, by C.W. Bruinvis, via Regionaal Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
The Sunday porch: le bricolage
“Famille attablée sur la terrasse, ombragée par une bâche,” (family at a table on a terrace, shaded by a tarp) ca. 1890 – ca. 1910, by Eugène Trutat*, via Bibliothèque de Toulouse (cropped slightly by me).
*I was skeptical about the photographer because Trutat died in 1910, and the women on the left appear to be in the shorter dresses of the 1920s or 30s. However, they could be wearing the bathing suits of around 1900.
Vintage landscape: Biloxi, Mississippi
Hotel de Montross (or Montross Hotel), Biloxi, Mississippi, ca. 1900, via Cooper Postcard Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Commons on flickr.
Because of its waterfront location, Beloxi has been a summer resort town since the first half of the 1800s. The Hotel de Montross — facing the Mississippi Sound — was one of its oldest hotels. Today, it is long gone, with a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino located on approximately the same spot.
(There’s another picture of the hotel’s grounds here.)
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