“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” for April 30th in the 2026 spring show . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-341

Green Technology. 2021. vectorified.com. Found via an email from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

1935 and out for a fast decor refresh before Mother comes. Room interiors with brand new venetian blinds manufactured by the Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio.

Front cover, Image 1 of Yardley Venetian Blinds, a commercial catalog published by Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio USA. © May 1935. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/yardleyimprovedv00yard/mode/1up

A bank, maybe. Commercial but not a store because they dress the windows, not cover them up with venetian blinds. Page 3 of Yardley Venetian Blinds, a commercial catalog published by Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio USA. © May 1935. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/yardleyimprovedv00yard/page/1/mode/1up
In this Bedroom Yardley Blinds add charm and comfort. (upper image). Page 6 of Yardley Venetian Blinds, a commercial catalog published by Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio USA. © May 1935. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/yardleyimprovedv00yard/page/6/mode/1up
Venetian Blinds adapted to the formal dining room (lower image). Page 6 of Yardley Venetian Blinds, a commercial catalog published by Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio USA. © May 1935. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/yardleyimprovedv00yard/page/6/mode/1up
Yardley Venetian Blinds furnish controlled light and privacy in this airy sun room (upper image). Page 7 of Yardley Venetian Blinds, a commercial catalog published by Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio USA. © May 1935. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/yardleyimprovedv00yard/page/7/mode/1up
One of the many attractive offices in the Grant Building, Pittsburgh, which is equipped throughout with Yardley Blinds. We quote from a letter by V. W. Hunter. superintendent of this building, as follows: ‘- we are pleased to advise you that we have approximately 1800 Venetian Blinds of the Yardley manufacture in our building. Over a period of 33 months, these blinds have been satisfactory in every respect and we have had excellent service from the Yardley Company. We feel we made no mistake in the selection of the Yardley Venetian Blind.’ Page 8 of Yardley Venetian Blinds, a commercial catalog published by Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio USA. © May 1935. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/yardleyimprovedv00yard/page/8/mode/1up
A pleasant corner of the club library. YARDLEY BLINDS in stain finishes, will match various wood paneling. They add especially to an early American motif. Page 9 of Yardley Venetian Blinds, a commercial catalog published by Yardley Screen and Weather Strip Company of Columbus Ohio USA. © May 1935. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/yardleyimprovedv00yard/page/9/mode/1up

Yardley Screen and Weather Strip was active in the 1920s and 1930s according to a Google search. This is the only 1930s catalogue of theirs that anyone has scanned. There is an earlier pamphlet listing their screen products but it has no room pictures.

Designs beautiful enough to grace any room in Malmaison. Wouldn’t be surprised if the Empress Joséphine had some just like these. In various archives but the University of Heidelberg has the best scans.

PREMIER CAHIER D’ARABESQUES ET DE DÉCORATIONS PROPRES AUX ARTISTS DE CER GENRE, définies par M. J. M. Moreau et à Rome par M. Lavalle Poufin. Dediee a Monsier Charles, Cesar, de Rigor, Chevalier de Montjoux Capitaine au Régiment de Flandre & &. Par son très humble et très obéissant serviteur Guyot. A.P.D.R. A Paris chez Guyot Graveur Rue Saint-Jacques. J. M. Moreau after Guyot. Plate 2 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0014/image,info,thumbs
Lavalle Poussin del. Guyot sculptor. Plate 5 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0017/image,info,thumbs
Peint par Watteau. Gravé par Guyot. Plate 9 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0021/image,info,thumbs
Plate 15 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0027/image,info,thumbs
Lavalle Poussin del. Guyot sculp. Plate 17 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0029/image,info,thumbs
A.P.D.R. Voisin Del, Guyot Sculp. Plate 21 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0033/image,info,thumbs ;
IX. CAHIER D’ARABESQUES, ET DE DÉCORATIONS, propres aux Artistes de ce genres.À Paris chez Guyot, Graveur, et Md. D’Estampes rue Saint-Jacques, au Grand Gessnere, avec privilège de Roy. Barthelot del. Guyot, Sculp. Plate 26 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0038/image,info,thumbs
A.P.D.R. Leclerc, del. Guyot Sculp. Plate 31 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0043/image,info,thumbs
CAHIER D’ARABESQUES, ET DE DÉCORATIONS, propres aux Artistes de ce genres.À Paris, chez Guyot, graveur, et Md. d’Estampes, rue Saint-Jacques au Grand Gessnere. Berthelot, del. Guyot direxit. Plate 34 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0046/image,info,thumbs
CAHIER D’ARABESQUES, ET DE DÉCORATIONS, propres aux Artistes de ce genres.Dessiné à Rome par M. Lavalle Poussin. A Paris chez Guyot Graveur Rue Jacques. A.P.D.R. Plate 37 of Nouvelle collection d’arabesques, propres à la décoration des appartemens. By M. Alexandre Lenoir and published in Paris and Strasbourg in 1810. Collections of and image © Heidelberg University Library. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lenoir1810/0049/image,info,thumbs

“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” for April 27th in the 2026 spring show . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. Please scroll down to the end to see all the images. Thanks!

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-cca

Bird sculpture rendered in metal as reddish flowers with black centers. 2020. Japanese. Taiichiro Yoshida, artist. taiichiroyoshida.com. via thisiscolossal.com.

Off to buy a few more middy blouses and then I’m off on holiday with the Saturday Evening Girls Club. The Saturday Evening Girls club (1899-1969) was a Progressive Era reading group for young immigrant women in Boston’s North End. From the archives of the University of Massachusetts Boston (previously Boston State College).

At Hull Street: From left to right: unidentified, Fanny Levine, Lili Shapiro, Celia Goodman, and unidentified. North End, Boston, Massachusetts USA. ca. 1899-1917. Photograph. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license.https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/263/rec/4
Berrying: Group of Saturday Evening Girls members pose while berry picking at camp. Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp, located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/200/rec/8
Breakfast on the porch: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls sit at a long table for breakfast. ca. 1899-1917. Photograph. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/146/rec/10
Knitting Party: Lili Shapiro is shown here sitting in the middle of the knitting party. Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/285/rec/16
“May 30, 1915,” Saturday Evening Girls members: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. May 30, 1915 photograph which was created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/143/rec/26

Anna Levin, Ethel Epstein Maysles, and Lina Rectes at the beach: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/249/rec/46
Annie and Eva Geneco sit outside: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/84/rec/48

Five Saturday Evening Girls members pose for photograph. They are wearing what were called gym skirts which we would call culottes: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/220/rec/139

Young woman wraps herself with garden hose, 1917. Presumably photographed in Gloucester but for sure Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/147/rec/370

Looks like fun. Helen Osborne Storrow was married to investment banker James Storrow for whom Boston’s Storrow Drive is named. He led a campaign to create the Charles River Basin and preserve and improve the riverbanks as a public park (Boston’s Esplanade where our annual the Pops Go The Fourth of July concert is held. Storrow Drive came later and was not something his (by then) widow Helen Osborne Storrow would have wanted. Mrs. Storrow was a major philanthropist; along with the Saturday Night Girls Club which also had a pottery component she supported West End House which in her time was in Boston’s West End but later moved to Allston (part of Boston) and is where my children learned to swim. Later during the COVID pandemic it housed a COVID testing program and food support programs that delivered groceries to local families in need.

Interior spaces back in 1930. All very cozy looking but that makes sense as they are taken from a radiator cabinet catalogue put out by Tuttle and Bailey Manufacturing who have been in business since 1846. They are a leading manufacturer of commercial grilles & registers and various HVAC components and are located in Richardson, Texas.

A library, maybe. A sun room generally had a tile or slate floor. Image 1 of a commercial catalogue published by the Tuttle and Bailey Manufacturing Company in 1930. Columbia University Library Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tuttlebaileyradi00tutt/mode/1up
Room by Lord and Taylor, New York with Tuttle and Bailey Radiator Cabinet – Tuttle and Bailey Manufacturing Company Established 1846. 441 Lexington Avenue :: New York. Sales Offices in all Principal Cities of United States and Canada. Image 2 of a commercial catalogue of radiator cabinets published by the Tuttle and Bailey Manufacturing Company in 1930. Columbia University Library Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tuttlebaileyradi00tutt/page/n1/m

Office in the Bronze Department of The Gorham Company, New York, with Tuttle and Bailey Radiator Cabinets, Longacre Style. Grilles are standard 1/2 inch square mesh only. For Commercial Use. Image 2 of a commercial catalogue of Radiator Cabinets published by the Tuttle and Bailey Manufacturing Company in 1930. Columbia University Library Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tuttlebaileyradi00tutt/page/5/mode/1up

There are other old catalogues from Tuttle and Bailey on the Internet Archive but this is the only one showing their radiator cabinets in rooms. You may visit them online here https://www.tuttleandbailey.com/ I had various apartments with radiators back in my apartment renting days but I can’t remember any radiator cabinets over the radiators. But my grandparents’ house built in 1926 had at least one in the dining room and probably more than one in the other rooms. Where I live now just has boring baseboard radiators which work great but aren’t as pretty.

An envisioning. 1998 and sunrise coming up over the water at the beach house in Old Ringan Plantations.

Oh to be here.

Emeralda Key and nothing as assured as the sun going up and down, that and the tides punctuated by the occasional hurricane to rearrange the shore, sometimes in a way that helps with less of a hike needed to reach the dock. Not so lucky a few years back, with a golf cart and a man needed, but not now.

my new short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest. There is no Emeralda Key: I used the name in a novel and thought it was pretty so reused it here.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1998-and-sunrise-coming

Students in Prairie Dresses: Anne Carney, Elisabeth Ertman, and Missy Parks (all Class of 1984) sit in the grass while wearing long dresses. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA. 1984 image. Photographer not given. Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections, TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections.https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/node/378315?search_api_fulltext=dress

Paintings of home by John Henry Lorimer. A Scottish painter, he lived from 1856 to 1936 and painted portraits and genre scenes of everyday life. Studied art at the Royal Scottish Academy.

The Flight of the Swallow. Painted in 1906. Scottish. Oil on canvas. John Henry Lorimer, painter (1856-1936). Collections of the Museums & Galleries Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council. 2015 image with the artwork itself being in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 70 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Flight_of_the_Swallows_by_John_Henry_Lorimer,_1906.jpg but here too https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-flight-of-the-swallows-93502
Interior Harmony. Undated, by 1936. Scottish. Watercolor on paper. John Henry Lorimer, painter (1856-1936). Collections of and image credit the Royal Watercolour Society. Signed J. H. Lorimer on the lower left. Artwork itself in the public domain because the painter has been dead over 70 years. via artuk. http://www.artuk.org/artworks/interior-harmony-23773
Ninian Patrick, Son of Lady and Lord Crichton-Stuart. Painted ca. 1910. Scottish. Oil on canvas. John Henry Lorimer, painter (1856-1936). Inscribed J. H. Lorimer. Image credit: National Trust for Scotland, Falkland Palace and Garden with the portrait being on loan from a private source. via artuk. http://www.artuk.org/artworks/ninian-patrick-son-of-lady-and-lord-crichton-stuart-196497
Hush. 1905-1906. Scottish. Oil on canvas. John Henry Lorimer, painter (1856-1936). Image credit and collections of Rochdale Arts and Heritage Service. Artwork itself in the public domain in the United States because the painter died over 70 years ago. via artuk. http://www.artuk.org/artworks/hush-90198