“Kindergarten Picnic, Tokyo,” Japan, ca. 1915, via OSU Special Collections & Archives Commons on flickr.
The image is from a collection of visual instruction lantern slides.
Tag: picnic
Hestonville, Pennsylvania
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.
Tulip fields
Life in gardens: tea and talk
“Picnic-style tea ceremony,” Japan, ca. 1900, a hand-colored postcard, via The New York Public Library.
It may be a “ceremony,” but I think it’s more likely an informal bite to eat after a long walk under the cherry blossoms — with lots of conversation.
Life in gardens: after lunch
“Three women, Lysekil, Sweden,” 1880s, a cyanotype by Carl Curman, via Swedish National Heritage Board Commons on flickr.
The woman at the top of the picture is Calla Curman, wife of the photographer.
For more images like this one, check out one of my favorite blogs, It’s About Time, which is currently posting a series, “Summer Women” — beautiful mostly 19th century paintings of women and children in the garden.
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