well-dressed children – Page 5

The Sunday porch: County Armagh

June 18, 2017July 18, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ureLeave a comment

Bridget and Maynard Sinton at their family home of Ballyards, County Armagh, June 17, 1921, by H. Allison & Co. Photographers, via Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Commons on flickr.

That retractable striped awning emerging from the terrace roof looks very sleek and was brand new. A ca. 1920 photo of the house in this biography of the children’s father shows the terrace with no cover. (You can read a brief history of awnings here.)

Ballyards was built in 1872 and sold to the father, a linen manufacturer, in 1908. He almost doubled its size and called it “Ballyards Castle.”

The children playing in a sandpile. (This photo has been printed in reverse from the others.)

Maynard was killed in WWII, but Bridget (age 7 in these photos) lived until 1975.

June flowers

June 9, 2017June 8, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ureLeave a comment

Girl with wildflowers (cropped slightly by me), ca. 1900, photographer unidentified but possibly Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Three boys

March 28, 2017March 21, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ureLeave a comment

“Three boys in western costumes holding flowers,” ca. 1915, an autochrome, place and photographer unknown, via George Eastman Museum Commons on flickr.

I think these are twins and their younger brother (on the left). What do you think the flowers are? Could the yellow-orange ones be California poppies?

The flower seller, Paris

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Buying flowers at 64 Avenue Hoche, Paris, ca. 1924, by Auguste Léon, via Archives of the Planet Collection – Albert Kahn Museum /Département des Hauts-de-Seine.

This autochrome is one of about 72,000 that were commissioned and then archived by Albert Kahn, a wealthy French banker, between 1909 and 1931. Kahn sent thirteen photographers and filmmakers to 50 countries “to fix, once and for all, aspects, practices, and modes of human activity whose fatal disappearance is no longer ‘a matter of time.'”* The resulting collection is called Archives de la Planète and now resides in its own museum at Kahn’s old suburban estate at Boulogne-Billancourt, just west of Paris. Since June 2016, the archive has also been available for viewing online here.

I wasn’t able to make a flower arrangement this week for “In a vase on Monday,”‘ but to see what other garden bloggers have created today, please visit host Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

*words of Albert Kahn, 1912. Also, the above photo (A 69 599 X) is © Collection Archives de la Planète – Musée Albert-Kahn and used under its terms, here.