Two styles

two-styles-savannah-ga-habs-library-of-congressIron and picket fences, East Henry Street, Victorian Historic District, Savannah, Georgia, 1979, by Walter Smalling, Jr., for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Mohegan, W.V.

1-west-virginia-1938-mpwolcott-library-of-congress Gate and fence in coal miner’s front yard, Mohegan, West Virginia, September 1938, by Marion Post Wolcott, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

3-west-virginia-1938-mpwolcott-library-of-congress
Mohegan was a coal mining community or “camp” of McDowell County. It was abandoned in the 1940s.

North Dakota

no-dakota-fence-j-vachon-1940-library-of-congress“Fence on large farm in Red River Valley, Cass County, North Dakota,” October 1940, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

no-dakota-fence-full-j-vachon-1940-library-of-congress

The winter garden: train town

train-town-1-library-of-congressThe Christmas Tree of Mrs. A.M. Keen, between 1905 and 1945, probably Washington, D.C., by Harris & Ewing, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

You can check out all the little details on an enlarged and enhanced version here, on Shorpy.

The winter garden: classwork

Botany class, Barnard College, Library of CongressA botany class at Barnard College, New York City, between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, by Bain News Service, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (Click  here to see a larger version on the Library’s flickr photostream.)