“Memie” (Mary Elizabeth Edwards) and her first post office in Lloyd, Florida, ca. 1910, via State Library and Archives of Florida (Florida Memory) Commons on flickr.
Shades of Eudora Welty. . . here’s her famous story.
Category: vintage landscape
Vintage landscape: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Mary Ball Washington house, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1927, a hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The house was the last home of George Washington’s mother. It still exists and is open to the public. The garden was restored in 1968 to reflect how it might have looked between 1772 and 1789.
Vintage landscape: Thornedale
Sugar maple allée at “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Helen Stafford Thorne is credited with the garden’s design. The estate still exists under family ownership.
Life in gardens: Montreal
Une femme sent des fleurs à vendre au Marché Bonsecours, à Montréal (A woman smelling some flowers offered by a vendor at the Bonsecours market in Montreal,” June 1950, by Chris Lund, via Library and Archives Canada on flickr (under CC license).
The Sunday porch: ice cream
“Waiters at Day and Brothers Ice Cream Saloon,” 1880, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, by William H. Stauffer, via Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, The New York Public Library.
The image is not very clear, but it looks like a fun place. The same company still exists at the location shown above as Day’s Ice Cream. It is Ocean Grove‘s oldest continuously operating business.
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