“Fire prevention week in Cincinnati, Ohio,” October 1938, by John Vachon for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Sunday porch: Le Droit Park
Detail of porch column, Le Droit Park, 3rd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 1974, by Ronald Comedy for an Historic American Building Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Le Droit Park is an old Washington subdivision of “large freestanding houses and duplexes of related architectural design,“ located just south of Howard University. When it was built in 1873, it was restricted to white buyers only and gated, but a series of protests brought the fences down in 1891, and by 1920 its residents were predominately African-American and included professors, politicians, and artists. The area suffered decline in the 1980s, but today its renovated homes are selling quickly, according to The Washington Post. The neighborhood is on the Heritage Trail, a self-guided walking tour developed by Cultural Tourism DC.
The home pictured above — with its distinctive porch columns — still exists.
Vintage landscape: Hartsdale
“Dog cemetery, Hartsdale,” New York, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915, by Bain News Service, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Hartsdale Pet Cemetery is the oldest operating pet cemetery in the world and the only one listed on the National Register of Historic Places, according to its website. It was founded in 1896, in the apple orchard of a New York City veterinarian.
Today, it holds the graves of over 80,000 animals, including the pets of Diana Ross, Irene Castle, and Mariah Carey.
Vintage landscape: Loch Earn
A garden in Loch Earn, Scotland, ca. 1864, by D. T. K. Drummond, via National Galleries of Scotland Commons on flickr.
Vintage landscape: Charleston, S.C.
Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926, by Arnold Genthe, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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