The Sunday porch: Plaquemines Parish, La.

“Mother of three soldiers,” Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana,  June 1943, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.


The three Blue Star service flags in the window indicate that the family had three sons fighting in WWII.

Kingsville, Victoria

“Girl playing with Peter Rabbit dolls,” Kingsville, Victoria, 1937, by Gordon Binns, via The Biggest Family Album in Australia, Museums Victoria Collections.

The little girl is Phyllis Binns.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Proofreader Sophie Baldwin and another woman at work in her office decorated with many potted plants and vines, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1901, a stereograph by Thomas R. Lewis, via New York Public Library Digital Collections.


There is a larger version here, and you can zoom in on the details.

Les Eyquems, France

Les Eyquems, France, September 1925, photographer unknown, via Penny on flickr (used by permission).

There’s a quartier of Les Eyquems in the commune of Mérignac in southwestern France, just west of the city of Bordeaux. There’s also a Chateau Les Eyquems (vineyard) north of Bordeaux.

Spring arrangement


“Still life with motifs of tulips,” by John Hertzbert, an autochrome made between 1904 and 1935, via Tekniska Museet (Sweden) on flickr (used under CC license).

This lantern slide was used in photography class lectures at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.