Two women playing badminton or lawn tennis while others look on, “The Oaks,” Galveston,Texas, ca. 1900, via Texas State Archives Commons on flickr.
Tag: Texas State Archives
The Sunday porch: Austin, Texas
A repeat porch from June 2014. . .
“Remains of log dogtrot house near Webberville Road. . . Austin Texas,” 1935, probably by Fannie Ratchford, via Texas State Archives.
Unfortunately, it’s a little out of focus, but still beautiful.
. . . I woo the wind
That still delays his coming. Why so slow,
Gentle and voluble spirit of the air?
Oh, come and breathe upon the fainting earth
Coolness and life!— William Cullen Bryant, from “Summer Wind“
Vintage landscape: O cabbage gardens
Cabbages in the vegetable garden of Chelmsford, Greenwich, Connecticut, ca. 1914, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
A cottage garden in Alaska, between 1909-1920. By National Photo Company, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Woman in her garden, Puerto Rico, Winter 1941/42, by Jack Delano, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The vegetable garden and cold frames of the Maxey House, Paris, Texas, undated, from the Samuel Bell Maxey Collection, via Texas State Archives Commons on flickr.
Mrs. Jim Norris with homegrown cabbage, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
eternity swallows up timeO cabbage gardenssummer’s elegysunset survived
— Susan Howe, from “Cabbage Gardens”
The Sunday porch: Austin, Texas
“Remains of log dogtrot house near Webberville Road. . . Austin Texas,” 1935, probably by Fannie Ratchford, via Texas State Archives.
Unfortunately, it’s a little out of focus, but still beautiful.
. . . I woo the wind
That still delays his coming. Why so slow,
Gentle and voluble spirit of the air?
Oh, come and breathe upon the fainting earth
Coolness and life!
— William Cullen Bryant, from “Summer Wind“
Vintage landscape: Paris
. . . Texas.
The formal garden of the Samuel Bell Maxey house, Paris, Texas, c.1966, photographer unknown, via the Texas State Archives on flickr Commons.
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