Pleasant Hill, Vance County, North Carolina, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston for the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The plantation house, later known as Rivenoak, was built sometime between 1750 and 1780 by Philemon Hawkins, Jr.
A 2011 view of the house is here. Unfortunately the stone columns are gone.
Wicker and wood. (Check out the lamp/table in the lower left corner.)
From the outside: Leonard Mudge residence in Delray Beach, Florida, February 1959. The upper porch is shown above.
Both photos are by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Staghorn ferns ornament the narrow porch of the Lands and Works Office, Brisbane, Queensland, 1904, photographer unidentified, via State Library of Queensland.
(Click on the image for a better view.)
I believe the ferns are Platycerium superbum, which are native to Australia.
“Sitting on the Porch,” a postcard from ca. 1900, location and photographer unknown, via Miami University Libraries Commons on flickr.
(Click on the photo for a better look.)
The Bowden Postcard Collection of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, holds over 480,000 postcards from nearly everywhere in the early 20th century world.
This image is not very seasonal, I must admit. Here in Stuttgart, we woke up this morning to a light covering of snow.
Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill. . .And least will guess that with our bones
We left much more, left what still is
The look of things, left what we feltAt what we saw. . . .
— Wallace Stevens, from “A Postcard from the Volcano“
notes of an old music pace the air. . .*
“Women and children on a porch,” in Georgia, Florida, or the Bahamas, 1935, from the Lomax Collection in the Library of Congress.
The snapshot photographs of the Collection document the expeditions by John Avery Lomax, Ruby Terrill Lomax, and Alan Lomax — in the 1930s and 40s — to record and preserve the folk music and folklore of the southern United States and the Bahamas for the Library of Congress.
*From “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar” by Robert Duncan.
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