Vintage landscape: Charleston, S.C.

New Orleans Cemetary, Library of CongressCemetery, Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926, by Arnold Genthe, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Sunday porch: catching up

A repeat porch from October 2014. . .
Two women, by Michael Francis Blake, Duke University Libraries Commons on flickr“Snapshot, two women sitting on the front porch of a house, unidentified,” ca. 1912-1934, by Michael Francis Blake, via David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Libraries Commons on flickr.

Blake was one of the first African-American studio photographers in Charleston, South Carolina.  His collection at Duke consists of 117 photos in an album entitled “Portraits of Members.”

. . . our effort to open the gift of the world,
our hope to find years
in this box we tear apart.

Allan Johnston, from “Evening Conversation

Vintage landscape: Columbia, S.C.

Colonial Gardens full ,nypl.digitalcollections.510d47d9-a7ba-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w-3Colonial gardens, Columbia, South Carolina, ca. 1900, by Detroit Publishing Co., via The New York Public Library. (Click the image to enlarge it — or here.)

The handwritten message says:  “Beautiful beyond conception. One must err to appreciate.” Freudian slip?