Saturday, April 30, 2022

Is it trivia or potpourri?

 For Sepia Saturday most of these photographs are sepia or black & white...and most all were taken by other photographers on the internet.


Summertime melon at a millworker's house in Person County, North Carolina. July 1939. Photo by Dorothea Lange.


Montana 1901

The Jersey Shore, New Jersey USA, circa 1905 … People enjoying a late afternoon walk on Boardwalk at Asbury Park


In 1888 at the Rhode Island State Fair in Providence, Margaret and Edward said “I do,” in a hot air balloon  in front of an estimated 40,000



London steam bus, circa 1900, (1947). Double-decker steam-powered bus, operated by the London Road Car Co, travelling between Hammersmith and Oxford CircusFrom The Saturday Book, Seventh Year, edited by Leonard Russell.


Amelia Earhart at target practice with Babe Didrikson . Note the gun in Ms. Earhart's hand!


The House on Parktown Road in Warren County, NC by Watson Brown

Sun_Curl_by_ClarkLittle



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I don't know why they didn't include Tennessee!


Today's quote:


By a single thought that comes into the mind,

in one moment a hundred worlds are overturned.


—Rumi

21 comments:

  1. That London steam bus. 👀

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    1. It must have been heavy, at least my thinking of steam engines is that they were heavy. Poor wear on the tires!

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  2. Photos 2 and 3 remind me of my relatives' years in America (1902-11)... Gustaf, working at lumber yards etc, would have seen more of life as in No 2, Gerda (maid in Chicago and sometimes accompanying her employers on holidays to countryside estates) more of No 3 ... ;)

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    1. Wonderful to think of those two, sister and brother, having such diverse American experiences! And yet, people did live in both those environments around the same times.

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  3. ...who would have thought that book banning would raise its ugly head again, we never seem to learn!

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    1. The lessons learned often are lost between several generations. No children of today will have access easily to news stories of the 50s...McCarthy etc.

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  4. An interesting collection of photos - from the grand to the absurd to the impoverished to the colorful beauty of nature.

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  5. That old house couldn't have been occupied, could it?

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  6. Such great pictures! I love the ladies at the shore.

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    1. Oh yes, swishing around in long sleeves and petticoats, and parasols to keep the complexion clear! I think the shore would have been the only comfortable summer place to go in Victorian times.

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  7. Wow! Getting married in a hot air balloon! I'd love to know more about that couple.

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    1. It's certainly an event that they would have remembered all their married lives!

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  8. Iove the The House on Parktown Road in Warren County would be a great story prompt but not much fun to live in.

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    1. Oh yes, there certainly are many stories that those decrepit walls have seen!

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  9. A super medley for this weekend. I also like the image of the House on Parktown Road. Whenever I spot a similar old farmhouse on my travels I always try to stop and take a picture. The modern generation of rural houses, especially double-wides and the like, will never have that kind of "charm".

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  10. A neat collection of photos. I liked all of them - especially the one of the boardwalk & the poor old house. Heavens - I wonder what happened to it besides the ravages of time? Looks like it might have been built on other than solid ground? And I'm not at all surprised at those states identified as being the biggest book-banners. It follows everything else about them, unfortunately.

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  11. You've got a lovely assortment of old photos there! I love the stories they have, just by looking at them. I like the hot air balloon ride in 1888 and the Boardwalk in Asbury Park photo.

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  12. I smiled at the Wives Wanted, and the Hit Air Balloon , loved the broad board walk - we call it a Promenade and wondered how safe I would feel on top of that London bus - a fun collection.



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  13. These are really interesting to see!

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