“A couple watching the world go by from their flat on York Street, Dublin,” 1954, via National Library of Ireland (cropped slightly by me.)
The photo was taken by Elinor O’ Brien Wiltshire or her husband Reginald Wiltshire, owners of The Green Studios Ltd., Dublin.
Plant seller at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market, 1946, by J. Morris, via Local History & Archives Hamilton (Ontario) Public Library Commons on flickr.
There are more photos of the market here.
St. Margaret’s Home, Montreal, 1933, via Notman Photographic Archives, McCord Museum Commons on flickr.
At the time of the photo, the house — built in 1845 — was a small hospital run by the Anglican Sisters of St. Margaret. It still exists today and is called Notman House for photographer William Notman who lived there in the late 19th century.
I really covet those plant supports between the windows.
Farmhouse porch with plants in painted lard buckets, Morehead, Kentucky, 1940, by Marion Post Wolcott for U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
I wish we could see the colors of the painted* containers.
Two special supports were built along the front of the porch to display the plants. (There’s a third view of the house here.)
*Here, here, and here are examples of 1930s interior paint color combinations.
Pond at the house entrance of “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).
The house was built in 1849 and still exists.
enclos*ure 