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.
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Life in gardens: California
A repeat “Life in” from 2013. . .
I love this photo by Russell Lee, * of a May 1942 Turlock, California, backyard. (Unfortunately, it’s not very sharply focused.) The caption, possibly by the photographer, reads:
Housewife waters the lawn. All garden furniture and barbecue pit were made by her husband; about one out of every three houses in this town has such an arrangement in the backyard, and during the summer months people eat and spend many hours in their yards.
I particularly like the rolling sofa thing with the awning. Turlock is located in central California between Modesto and Merced. Continue reading “Life in gardens: California”
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