Heading back to school hoping for loads of fun and a date for every dance. Also straight As. Imagery from a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at what is now Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida.
New fans from Fan d’Eventails, Paris. I’d add something about summer breezes but we’re into the next snowstorm here. Please hope I don’t get snowed in! Thanks!
Hand-fan with a paper leaf printed with birds and insects and wooden sticks and guards, the guard applied with a metal insect that I think is a ladybug. Maybe not. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4595-birds-and-insects-late-19th-century-fan.html
An envisioning. 2003, One o’clock in the afternoon on a Friday in early autumn at the house in Bourgate Hills.
Oh to be here.
A morning spent pulling weeds using Mother’s old trowel, not to mention the ancient tweed skirt and thrift shop pullover she got somewhere in Montreal. A need to be dressed like Vogue at all times that came with her lifetime subscription, but not when the only things likely to see you are bugs, beetles, and worms.
my new short fiction piece with the rest at the Substack link in case you’d like to read the rest.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2003-one-oclock-in
Pour les jours de grands froids, l’esquimau est le costume le plus comfortable des petits, nouse l’expliquons dans sette page, pour 3 ans, (voir les conditions de vent dans le texte. TRICOTER DES CHAUDS LAINAGES: LE COSTUME ESQUIMAU DES BAMBINS. Article published in the February 5, 1933 issue of La Mode illustrée: journal de la famille on Page 9. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris, France. In the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000553549/1933/n06/v0009.simple.highlight=Dominotier.selectedTab=record
and the kind of winter outfit my parents, born in 1925 and 1928 wore when they were little and quite possibly knit by their mothers.
Summering at Mount Desert Island. I’ll be back when it starts snowing. Images from the promotional work “Mount Desert Island with Pen and Pencil” which was compiled by Doctor William Berry Lapham (Doctor W. B. Latham). Published in 1886.
Just like some others I found a different version of this here but it’s a different edition? Not sure what but it has 72 pages not 60
Illustrations from the children’s book “Детки Земли (Children of the Earth,” done by Sibylle von Olfers who also illustrated “Zochna in the Land of Snowdrops: Adventures in Verse.” From a 1917 Russian translation of the original German published in 1904.
– Come to us! to us!’ – the hills with lawns invite them.’ Image 8 of a 1917 Russian translation of the children’s book Детки Земли (Children of the Earth). Sibylle von Olfers (1881-1916), illustrator, with V. A. Smirnov having written the text. T. I. D. Sytin, Moscow, lithographer. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/halfofthesky_gmail_20171022/page/n7/mode/1up
Often, the cold rain made the little ones shiver. Often, like a hungry beast, the wind howled, mercilessly bending the flower stems, instilling fear with its ominous roar. The little ones grow cold and, their little cloaks fluttering in the wind, return to their mother who says:
“Hurry up, my dears! I have long since made up the beds in the little chambers for you, my little ones.” Image 18 of a 1917 Russian translation of the children’s book Детки Земли (Children of the Earth). Sibylle von Olfers (1881-1916), illustrator, with V. A. Smirnov having written the text. T. I. D. Sytin, Moscow, lithographer. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/halfofthesky_gmail_20171022/page/n17/mode/1up
These lithographs don’t actually have captions nor can I read Cyrillic. I have gone through the text, run it through Google Translate and then quoted much of the text or paraphrased it.
Imaginary things dreamed up by British artist Edward Alexander Wadsworth. Living from 1889 to 1949, he helped camouflage Royal Navy battleships during World War I.
Imagery from “Prince Domino and “Muffles” which was published in 1910. It is by Seymour Eaton (Paul Piper) who also wrote the Roosevelt Bears. I checked the Library of Congress and am glad I found this-
An envisioning. 1990 and an early afternoon in May at the house on South Kirkland Way.
Oh to be here.
Off to the school to collect the twins in their little plaid dresses with the white sashes held on by big green buttons like the ones Grandmama bought from Best and Company. No Best and Company anymore, at least not near Omaha, but a seamstress with an entire wall of bolts of tartan plaid of every clan that ever graced Edinburgh on a bad day or a good day. The colors do not match. The girls getting to pick out their favorite instead.
My new short fiction piece at the link in case you’d like to read the rest. Enjoy!
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1990-and-an-early
I found the image here over on Instagram. @filmlocationsnyc.
Up to the far north, the better to freeze to death. Depends on how warm your boots are. Visions of the Arctic back when it was the great frontier. Imagery from Alexander Hyde’s 1873 work “The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries in the Arctic regions: Life in the Realm of Frost.”
This one I didn’t find by myself. I found a link on the website of rare book dealer James Arsenault who is selling a salesman’s sample used to sell copies of The Frozen Zone and its Explorers. Then I found a scanned version over on the Internet Archive.
Heading off to college and checking out the viewbooks. If the boys are cute I’m applying. Imagery from the 1898 edition of the Eureka College (Illinois) Souvenir, put out by the Eureka College Aid Association.
