“Kindergarten Picnic, Tokyo,” Japan, ca. 1915, via OSU Special Collections & Archives Commons on flickr.
The image is from a collection of visual instruction lantern slides.
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CdV, Cyprus
“The magic carpet,” ca. 1860s, via pellethepoet on flickr (under CC license).
The picture was a carte de visite (CdV or visiting card), a type of small photograph patented in Paris in 1854. Exchanging them among family and friends became extremely popular worldwide in the 1860s. Their use was displaced in the 1880s by the larger “cabinet cards” (and later by the home snapshot). Pelle’s notes say this one was purchased from an eBay seller in Paralimni, Cyprus.
At that moment
Postcard of family in the garden, ca. 1905, via pellethepoet on flickr (under CC license). Pelle’s notes say it was purchased from an eBay seller in Tramore, Waterford, Ireland.
The low-hanging hammock on the left swayed right at the moment the shutter clicked. There are actually two women in the hammock, and there’s a strange blur behind it in the center — probably a child running past. The girl on the grass has tumbled (out of the hammock?), and her legs are up. On the left, the blond girl on the bench has noticed and looks about to laugh.
For a better look, click on the picture — or on “via” above and then on the larger image there.
Les Eyquems, France
Les Eyquems, France, September 1925, photographer unknown, via Penny on flickr (used by permission).
There’s a quartier of Les Eyquems in the commune of Mérignac in southwestern France, just west of the city of Bordeaux. There’s also a Chateau Les Eyquems (vineyard) north of Bordeaux.
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