“Remains of log dogtrot house near Webberville Road. . . Austin Texas,” 1935, probably by Fannie Ratchford, via Texas State Archives.
Unfortunately, it’s a little out of focus, but still beautiful.
. . . I woo the wind
That still delays his coming. Why so slow,
Gentle and voluble spirit of the air?
Oh, come and breathe upon the fainting earth
Coolness and life!
— William Cullen Bryant, from “Summer Wind“
“Gate to the Hamilton residence. Bay St. Louis, Mississippi,” c. 1901, Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.*
The beach town of Bay St. Louis is located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on the Bay of Saint Louis.
“Harry’s villa.”
The structure around the tree was known as a shoo fly. The elevated platforms were popular along the Gulf Coast as breezy places to avoid deer flies.
“Shoo-fly at Madame Boyle’s.” (“Harry’s villa” and “Madame Boyles” seem to be the same cottage.)
There’s another version of a shoo fly here.
“Along the bay,” a photochrom print.
Bay St. Louis was devasted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Almost nine years later, it has made a good comeback and is listed among Coastal Living‘s “Dream Towns in the Gulf Coast.”
You can scroll through larger versions of these photos by clicking on ‘Continue reading’ below and then on any of the thumbnails in the gallery.
*All photos here were taken in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, c. 1901, by Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
. . . Texas.
The formal garden of the Samuel Bell Maxey house, Paris, Texas, c.1966, photographer unknown, via the Texas State Archives on flickr Commons.
U.S. Embassy-Rwanda LGBT Pride chalk graffiti mural, created June 24, 2014.
“Gratiot Avenue and Church Street, Mount Clemens, Michigan,” between 1880 and 1899, by Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
From the 1870s until World War II, Mount Clemens attracted film stars and the wealthy to its mineral baths.
The view of this intersection today is here.
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