Orange, Texas, May 1943, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Orange, located on the Sabine River, is a deep-water port to the Gulf of Mexico. (It is also the easternmost city in Texas.) A U.S. naval station opened there during WWII, providing a significant boost to the local economy.
The castle garden of St. Fagans National Museum of History, June 1, 1951, by Geoff Charles, via The National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru on flickr (cropped slightly by me).
Geoff Charles was a photojournalist for Welsh newspapers such as The Wrexham Star, The Montgomeryshire Express, and Y Cymro.
Women resting after working in a garden or vineyard, Les Mées, Basses-Alpes, France, April 13, 1916, by Georges Chevalier, via Archives of the Planet Collection – Albert Kahn Museum /Départment of Hauts-de-Seine.
I love their hats. Les Mées is in Haute or upper Provence. The area — very dry and hot — is one of the least densely populated in France.
This autochrome is one of about seventy-two thousand that were commissioned and then archived by Albert Kahn, a wealthy French banker and pacifist, between 1909 and 1931. Kahn sent thirteen photographers and filmmakers to fifty countries “to fix, once and for all, aspects, practices, and modes of human activity whose fatal disappearance is no longer ‘a matter of time.'”* The resulting collection is called Archives de la Planète and now resides in its own museum at Kahn’s old suburban estate at Boulogne-Billancourt, just west of Paris. Since June 2016, the archive has also been available for viewing online here.
*words of Albert Kahn, 1912. Also, the above photo (A 7 954) is © Collection Archives de la Planète – Musée Albert-Kahn and used under its terms, here.
“American Group Portrait,” ca. 1910, unknown location and photographer, via Museum of Photographic Arts Commons on flickr.
I suspect that this is the (semi-circular) porch of a boarding house and that the people are the residents and owners/employees.
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Happy 2018 to you all!
“Lady in White,” ca. 1905, by Dwight A. Davis, via Museum of Photographic Arts Commons on flickr.
That’s a cat at the bottom of the steps.
enclos*ure 