Country store with rough tree trunk columns, Person County, North Carolina, 1939, by Dorothea Lange for U.S. Farm Security Administration, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Vintage landscape: persimmon
“Kaki ni kirigirisu” (Grasshopper eating persimmon), late 19th c. reproduction of original early 19th c. meiji print, by Katsushika Hokusai, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Vintage landscape: focal point
Obelisk, probably Cairo area, Egypt, September 1934, by American Colony of Jerusalem Photo Department, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Vintage landscape: wishful thinking
Cross Manor, near St. Mary’s City, Maryland, 1936 or 37, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Some big boxwood love. The house (with 110 acres) still exists and may be the oldest in Maryland. Click here to see photos from 2013, when Ted Koppel lived there.
Vintage landscape: Cairo, Egypt
“Cairo’s public gardens on Gezireh,” between 1950 and 1977, hand-colored slide by Matson Photo Service, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This garden may have been located on or near the current site of the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
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