Unknown 1911 location. I remember my parents having one of those sling chairs like the man is lounging in....a canvas strip adhered at a top and bottom bar, with wood struts which collapsed so it could easily be carried around.
Madison County NC shows another wood frame hanging from the ceiling with fabric attached, this time to be quilted with the cotton batting which is shown around the edges. 1936
More use of wood and ropes on a derelict dock, with industrial gravel piled in the distance waiting to be shipped somewhere. Tampa Bay Florida in the 2000s.
Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store in Person County, North Carolina, circa 1939.
Women having tea, New Zealand, 1890.
Sharing with Sepia Saturday.
Sharing with Sepia Saturday.
...I remember those chairs too and I seem quilt frames like that in Amish homes.
ReplyDeleteThe foundations of the buildings caught my interest this morning. It looks like they were just plopped down on top of them with their weight holding the various posts and stones in place.
DeleteI recall those sling chairs. My elderly back would not be happy in one.
ReplyDeleteI sat on a stump at the playground yesterday, glad to have legs that can pull me up from low places still...but I totally agree about the sling chair (and thanks for reminding me of their name!)
DeleteDeck chairs, nasty pinch your fingers things.
ReplyDeleteThat wicker invalid carriage in the bottom picture is familiar. I used to know a man who used one. They lived in the country and he was outside all day long, greeting people and seemingly doing pretty well. Joe. His brothers took care of him.
Never seen anything like it!
DeleteQuilting frames were excellent inventions.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that Boud identified the invalid chair. At first it almost looked like a coffin to me. But the woman in it is certainly not dead. Well, she probably is now but not when the picture was taken.
I finally read the caption for the Sepia Saturday photo over on their meme...otherwise I thought coffin and the gals were just pranking around. Now I know!
DeleteA nice variety of photos with the wood theme. We had a couple of those sling- chairs but ours were made with aluminum frames rather than wood. I wouldn't want to try getting out of one them these days, however. :) I love piers. Sitting on one with the sound of the waves lapping at the understructure is so relaxing. And that has to be the tiniest tea table I've ever seen in the photo of the New Zealand ladies taking tea. I wonder if they took turns putting their tea cups down?
ReplyDeleteI noticed the silly tea table too, and their poor dresses with the bustle-type treatments crushed by the chairs.
DeleteNice to see the old photos, they give us a window to see how things were back in the day. Nice dragon, I like it.
ReplyDeleteMs Dragon has been retired, since the photo brought out all the little specks of dust and so forth that had landed on the fibers. I still have the original to look at in my kitchen however!
DeleteGreat photos!
ReplyDeleteWelcome...glad you liked them.
DeleteI love these old photos. My grandmother had a quilting frame that hung from her ceiling. She would stitch for hours and loved quilting. I miss those old country stores. As a child it was hard to beat candy and a soda, while sitting on the porch of the store. Thank you for trying to link up yesterday. My link up gave me the same error message yesterday afternoon. Oh well! Computer troubles happen!
ReplyDeleteSorry about that. I've had a couple of times when the internet suddenly quit, and so things that I thought I'd saved, or sent, just lay there looking at me...like a sleepy cat, what are you so upset about anyway, it's better to just lie in the sun and relax!
DeleteI love that first photo/It looks like pioneer Florida--could be some of my kin.
ReplyDeleteI love hearing about pioneering people just about anywhere. Love to hear some stories !
DeleteYou sure do interesting research! Very cool.
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