Yonkers, New York

“Mr. Garrity building a wading pool in the backyard for his children,” Yonkers, New York, 1942, by Arthur Rothstein for U.S. Office of War Informationvia Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Detroit, Michigan

Little girl and grandmother (?) with hose, Detroit, Michigan, July 1942, by Arthur S. Siegel for U.S. Office of War Information, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).

Caret, Virginia

Blandfield garden, Caret, Virginia, 1935, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).

Cropped slightly by me.

The Sunday porch: summer reading

reading-fonds-1266-item-5873-city-of-toronto-archives“M. Laing reading on porch at Bala, July 29, 1925,” via The Globe and Mail Collections (1266, item 5873), City of Toronto Archives.

‘Bala’ is probably Bala, Ontario, a summer cottage community north of Toronto.

The Sunday porch: shade

Owings Mills, near Baltimore, Maryland, July 1933, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).

Cropped slightly by me.