vintage landscape – Page 93

Waterford, Ireland

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Christmas tree wagon of William Power & Sons, merchants of seeds and trees. Photo taken at Waterford, Ireland, courthouse on December 16, 1929, via National Library of Ireland Commons on flickr.

There’s another good photo of this little girl (possibly a Power) and another loaded company wagon here.

To be
Brought down at last
From the cold sighing mountain
Where I and the others
Had been fed, looked after, kept still,
Meant, I knew — of course I knew —
That it would only be a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. . . .

— James Merrill, from “Christmas Tree“

The Sunday porch: Pleasant Hill, N.C.

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Pleasant Hill, Vance County, North Carolina, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston for the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Pleasant Hill,cropped, N.C. F.B. Johnston, Library of Congress — Detail of photo above.

The plantation house, later known as Rivenoak, was built sometime between 1750 and 1780 by Philemon Hawkins, Jr.

A 2011 view of the house is here. Unfortunately the stone columns are gone.

The Sunday porch: Delray Beach, Fla.

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Wicker and wood. (Check out the lamp/table in the lower left corner.)

From the outside: Leonard Mudge residence in Delray Beach, Florida, February 1959. The upper porch is shown above.

Both photos are by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Three swans

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“Landscape, Rodin’s garden, Meudon, France,” 1905, by Gertrude Käsebier, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Sunday porch: Brisbane

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Staghorn ferns ornament the narrow porch of the Lands and Works Office, Brisbane, Queensland, 1904, photographer unidentified, via State Library of Queensland.