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The Sunday porch: wedding party

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Sanders-Eckles wedding party, Lincolnville, Florida, ca. 1925, from the Richard Twine Collection, via Florida Memory (State Archives and Library of Florida) Commons on flickr.

Lincolnville is an historically African-American neighborhood of St. Augustine. It was established after the Civil War, in 1866, by several freedmen and women who leased the land for $1 a year.  By the 1880s, it had begun to grow and “was characterized by narrow streets, small lots, and houses built close to the street line, similar to the colonial St. Augustine style and land-use pattern,” according to Wikipedia. By the 1930s, it was an important subdivision of the city in size and in political participation of its residents, and by the 1960s, it drew national attention for its role in the Civil Rights Movement.

In 1991, Lincolnville was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its many late Victorian Era buildings and its place in African-American history. It is now known as the Lincolnville Historic District.

Hestonville, Pennsylvania

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Fourth of July picnic at Mr. James Hunter‘s, Hestonville, Pennsylvania, 1862, a stereograph by Coleman Sellers, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Hestonville is now a neighborhood of Philadelphia.

The flag

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“Couple standing in front of a greenhouse,” ca. 1920, location and photographer unknown, via simpleinsomnia on flickr (under CC license).

The Sunday porch: Vincennes, Indiana

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Sunday afternoon on the front porch, Vincennes, Indiana, July 1941, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Nice striped socks.

Interrupted by visitors.
At least it looks like he didn’t have to leave his book and go inside with them.

Wreathed

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Woman in daisy field, Library of Congress“Woman with wreath of leaves in her hair sitting in a field of daisies,” ca. 1900, photographer unknown, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

This photo was part of a large group of “artistic photographs,” primarily by early women photographers, that was donated to the Library of Congress by Frances Benjamin Johnston. In the spring of 1900, she had used some of these images in an exhibition of work by American women photographers at the Exposition Universelle Internationale in Paris.