“Pumpkins in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon,” date and photographer unknown, via Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives on flickr. The image is from a collection of lantern slides of the “Visual Instruction Department.”
Category: working in the garden
Vintage landscape: mums
A display of chrysanthemums in a Central Experimental Farm greenhouse, Ottawa, ca. 1920s, photographer unknown, via Library and Archives Canada (under CC license).
Vintage landscape: oh, that old thing. . .
Backyard prehistoric standing stone supporting a section of clothesline, Borgholm, Sweden, July 1949, by Mårten Sjöbeck, via Swedish National Heritage Board Commons on flickr.
There appears to be another stone in the neighbor’s yard, on the right side of the photo.
Life in gardens: delicately
“Aileen Parker watering a garden with a hose, Toronto, Ontario,” June 26, 1920, by John Boyd, via Library and Archives Canada on flickr (used under CC license).
. . . To love,
this song of water,
the insects work their garden long into the sun,
and the apples, still far away,
dream October.— Richard Barnes, from “Watering the Lawn“
Life in gardens: Washington, D.C.
“Kindergarten in a vegetable garden,” Washington, D.C., ca. 1899, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Before she became immersed in the work of photographing old houses and gardens, Johnston was a photojournalist and a portraitist. In 1899, she became interested in progressive education and made a photo survey of students at public schools in Washington, D.C.
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