Possibly Kristinestad, Ostrobothnia, Finland, between 1910 and 1920, photographer unknown, via The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland Commons on flickr.
Tag: back yard
Ararat, Victoria
Edith Clark aiming a rifle at a plaster model of a lion, Palmer Street, Ararat, Victoria, ca. 1925, via The Biggest Family Album in Australia, Museums Victoria Collections.
Edith’s house and those of her neighbors survive today.
Vintage landscape: Poca, WV
“Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant* loom over Poca, [West Virginia], home that is on the other side of the Kanawha River. Two of the towers emit great clouds of steam.”
This photo† (shown here with original caption) was taken in August 1973 by Harry Schaefer for DOCUMERICA, a photography project of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
There are more pictures from DOCUMERICA here.
*Three-unit coal-fired power plant.
†Via the U.S. National Archives Commons on flickr.
