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Who knew all this would happen afterwards! I used to write several blogs, but thought just concentrating on one would be easier for me and my readers. Sorry, it ends up having several topics in each post!

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Trivia through history for Sepia Saturday

 Sepia Saturday suggestion of beach or dancers or old costumes? Not sure where to go? I find some photos of my favorite swimmer...a granddaughter who has been on swim teams for most of her life!




These are quite old photos which her mom just posted, probably to embarass the young woman who's about to graduate from high school.


Last month was Women's History Month, so the Smithsonian put statues outside.

120 3D-Printed Statues of Women Redefine What Scientists Look Like

“IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit” takes over Smithsonian March 5-27, 2022

Sculptures of 120 women from all fields of STEM 


 

This was posted as a Vitorian Lady in 1840. I am pretty sure it was dated wrong, and would guess a modern woman dressed in the style of 1840 and someone took her photo!

 These are people in an undated photo, on their home Vardo wagon...just relaxing while someone took their photo.
 
 
A crowded gypsy camp in 1958in Kent. Photo by Bert Hardy
 

Oh look, swimmers in New York in 1900!




An entirely different kind of dwelling, the Astor House in New York, around 1910.

Moving forward in time to 1920, here are Miss America contestants. 

 I recently posted an adventurous lady who went over Niagra Falls in a barrel...but this photo had been taken a bit earlier when Niagao Falls froze in 1883.


A Chinese explorer, Xing He's ship compared to Columbus' Santa Maria. Just to consider sailing over the seas looking for new things...perhaps beaches where people were dancing...


Sepia Saturday has the theme of dancing on the beach.












21 comments:

  1. You certainly do some sleuthing to find SS pics.

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  2. Great photos, your granddaughter is cute. I love the statues of the women, a wonderful exhibit.
    Take care, enjoy your weekend!

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    1. Thanks, I had fun putting this together, then forgot to call another granddaughter for her birthday yesterday. Oops.

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  3. ...the Romanichal Travellers are a distinctive group!

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    1. I am so glad to find these "real life" kinds of photos of those people, as they are so often romaticized by just looking at their wagons. They had sanitation difficulties compared to a modern campground, and their political family connections probably were much like those from Sicily...according to some reports I read.

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  4. Those Miss America contestants' costumes are amazing. How things have changed.

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    1. I know, and I wish the later contestants had a "costume" phase, rather than evening gowns and swim suits, and the silliest of all, talents! If I remember right, lots of the girls would also tell their story of what they'd do for the world if they won. I gagged over that part!

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  5. Great series! An amazing photo journey through time.

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    1. Glad you liked it...every once in a while I go through the stack (virtual) of old photos.

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  6. The Smithsonian statue set is quite a sight.

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  7. Not "quite sure" about the choice of the colour orange for those statues... (lol)

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    1. They do catch your eye...and don't represent any particular race...but I agree, it's a strange color for statues!

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  8. My favorite is the beach in 1900. How on earth women swam in those costumes is a mystery. Thank goodness styles changed and allowed women to be truly free in the water!

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    1. I guess they didn't swim laps like people do today. Yay for the swim suits of today!

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  9. Great photos all and a nice combination linking in different ways to the prompt. The comparison of the size of the ships really brings home how brave (or crazy) some of those early explorers were! Yikes. :)

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  10. It's always fun to see how everyone interprets the Sepia Saturday theme. I like how you neatly connect a young bright-eyed swimmer with a great 15th century Chinese explorer. Twists and turns like dancing with a imaginary partner.

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  11. My favorite is the Miss America photo, although they probably wore feathers from egrets slaughtered for their feathers (before the practice was banned), and the costumes would now be criticized as culturally derivative or some such thing. Speaking of political correctness, we are not supposed to say gypsy any more. Did you know the gypsy moth just got renamed spongy moth? Seriously.

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