An envisioning. July 2022, and a late morning heading toward crab salad luncheon with the ladies’ time at the Active Retiree Inn at Glimmerglass Bluffs.

Oh to be here.

The servers setting up the dining room. More guests than the invitation had promised, at least as far as one can tell from the number of dishes and courses listed. Only five items and two desserts, but an entire horseshoe table like the kind the Governor had at his banquet back in Boston that time, the one that was supposed to be lobster but the lobsters weren’t leaping into the traps. Gallons of baked beans garnished with parsley instead. This lunch better, for sure, what with not even a can of baked beans for miles and three bowls of marshmallow-studded ambrosia already.

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Art grilles in wood that must have been stylish considering a buyer at Boston’s Jordan Marsh put together a trade catalogue of them. From 1895. I grew up in a Queen Anne house in suburban Boston that had one and remember other houses with them. I had thought that they came from the woodworking shops of Boston’s South End but no they appear to have come from the store where 70 years later my mother refused to let my sister and myself buy go go boots. Who knew!

*MODERN ART GRILLES*. Front cover of a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/mode/1up

*Art grille in wood with a statuette sitting on the shelf.* Number 1000. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 3 of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n3/mode/1up

*Art grille in wood with a vase of flowers sitting on the shelf.* Number 1006. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 5 of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n5/mode/1up

*Art grille in wood screening off the staircase that ascends from the front hall with drapery attached to the arched part of the grille over on the left.* Number 1021. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 9 of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n9/mode/1up

*Art grille in wood with a floor to ceiling velvet? drapery attached to the screen by beadwork ? and a tassel on the left and a carved wooden griffin or dragon on the right.* Number 1026. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 11 of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n11/mode/1up

*Art grille in wood, personalized with the name “Everitt.”* Number 1025. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 10 (bottom image) of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n10/mode/1up

A very elaborate wood art grille with floor to ceiling draperies with fringe on the left with a glimpse of the newel post leading to the staircase ascending to the second floor with a built in bench on the right in front of the stairs. Number 1025. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 12 of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n12/mode/1up

Art grilles in wood, Numbers 1028 and 1029. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 12 of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n13/mode/1up

Art grilles in wood, Numbers 1030 and 1031. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 14 of *MODERN ART GRILLES*, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n14/mode/1up

My parents weren’t having a baby in 1948 but somebody was and maybe they looked through “It’s Lullabye Time,” a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. I assume they mailed these out to a mailing list of expectant mothers or you could walk into a furniture store and pick one up.

Front cover of It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n4/mode/1up

*CRADLE SONG* (page 1 of 2). Page 1 of *It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division* A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n1/mode/1up

“Dude Ranch” Ensemble. Every little boy or girl will give a big “yip-e-e-e hi-ho” for a Dude Ranch room. What fun to be a cowboy or a cowgirl, to live and entertain the neighborhood small set in a bedroom-playroom that is authentically western to the core. Here truly is an atmosphere for little people that will stimulate self-reliance, fire the imagination and accentuate the habits of neatness and responsibility. Page 7 of *It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division* A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n7/mode/1up

“Dream Boat” Ensemble. What fun to have a sailor room… to be the skipper of this charming youth group of breath-taking beauty. Shown here in glowing, natural honey birch, Dream Boat is also available in lovely pastel enamel as illustrated in the Infant’s Set on the opposite page. But regardless of the finish you may choose, the trim, nautical lines of this set will win the heart of your little boy or girl, and the open admiration of all others who see it. The side rails of the bed are turned in a natural rope twist, the drawer pulls fashioned to appear as net floats. Other marine touches, such as the anchor backed mother’s chair, and the rounded wave corners of all pieces, make this an enchanting, happy room. Page 11 of *It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division* A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n11/mode/1up

“Piggy Bank” Infants’ Set. Here is a delightful, charming room for baby that goes straight to the heart of all who see it—a combination of essential, functional pieces that suggest happiness on sight. Yet this Piggy Bank group, or any other pleasing Lullabye ensemble, represents much more than just furniture to carry you through the period of infancy and the baby years. Basically, this furniture is planned so that as baby | grows, the room grows too, developing into a youth room. Only one of these original pieces — the crib—will sooner or later find its way to retirement. All of the rest, the chifferobe, costumer, toy chest and | mother’s chair carry on through all of the years from babyhood to high school days. Along with the youth bed, a writing desk, and perhaps a child’s table and chair set, are the only major additions that need be added to give your little boy or girl a fully ensembled, functional child’s room. Page 14 of *It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division* A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n14/mode/1up

*BYE BYE BABY BUNTING.* Page 29 of *It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division* A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n29/mode/1up

Lullabye Furniture was founded in 1897. They closed in the 1990s.

Only two more weeks and its off to Camp Quinibeck to have fun until school starts. Camp Quinibeck was on Lake Fairlee in Vermont; one of these images is from a local historical society, the others are from a 1912 photograph album that must have belonged to a camper or maybe a counselor.

Campers presenting a classical tableau. Performances of this type were prepared for camp and public audiences. Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont. Photograph, ca. 1915. American. Photographer not given. Collections of the Fairlee Historical Society. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://larrycoffin.blogspot.com/2010/07/going-to-summer-camp.html

Tableau with two campers and two counselors. Must have been wrapped around the Alaska Gold Rush as the young woman on the left is holding a mining tin pan and the box the young woman on the right is holding says “Fairbanks Gold Dust Washing Powder.” 1912. From a black paper photo album of photographs of Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont with the first photograph labeled “Camp Quinibeck 1912.” Image © 2026 Caroliniana Rare Books. Fair use license with the photograph itself being in the public domain due to age. https://www.carolinianararebooks.com/pages/books/12487/photo-album-of-camp-quinibeck-in-vermont

*Camp Quinibeck 1912.* Cabins and dining hall/main building, Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont. 1912. From a black paper photo album of photographs of Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont with the first photograph labeled “Camp Quinibeck 1912.” Image © 2026 Caroliniana Rare Books. Fair use license with the photograph itself being in the public domain due to age. https://www.carolinianararebooks.com/pages/books/12487/photo-album-of-camp-quinibeck-in-vermont

Tableau/pageant/play with campers in various costumes including a sailor, a clown and a Chinaman sitting in the middle of the front row. Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont. 1912. From a black paper photo album of photographs of Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont with the first photograph labeled “Camp Quinibeck 1912.” Image © 2026 Caroliniana Rare Books. Fair use license with the photograph itself being in the public domain due to age. https://www.carolinianararebooks.com/pages/books/12487/photo-album-of-camp-quinibeck-in-vermont

Campers wearing their middy tops and gym skirts. Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont. 1912. From a black paper photo album of photographs of Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont with the first photograph labeled “Camp Quinibeck 1912.” Image © 2026 Caroliniana Rare Books. Fair use license with the photograph itself being in the public domain due to age. https://www.carolinianararebooks.com/pages/books/12487/photo-album-of-camp-quinibeck-in-vermont

Exercise? Maybe a competition with a neighboring camp? Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont. 1912. From a black paper photo album of photographs of Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont with the first photograph labeled “Camp Quinibeck 1912.” Image © 2026 Caroliniana Rare Books. Fair use license with the photograph itself being in the public domain due to age. https://www.carolinianararebooks.com/pages/books/12487/photo-album-of-camp-quinibeck-in-vermont

Waterfront with a row boat in the foreground and campers swimming, boating and canoeing. Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont. 1912. From a black paper photo album of photographs of Camp Quinibeck, Lake Fairlee, Vermont with the first photograph labeled “Camp Quinibeck 1912.” Image © 2026 Caroliniana Rare Books. Fair use license with the photograph itself being in the public domain due to age. https://www.carolinianararebooks.com/pages/books/12487/photo-album-of-camp-quinibeck-in-vermont

This was only Camp Quinibeck’s second summer from what I am finding. It would have been one of the earliest camps for girls. They closed decades later so there is a Facebook page with 1960s images but nothing this old. There are probably more in the historical society collections but other than the first image here which is from someone else’s blog post none of the other pictures appear to have been scanned and available online.

Also, counselors in black face and a camper in costume as a Chinaman was perfectly fine in 1912 Vermont.

Pretending to be a Native American in the “Pageant at Cooperstown.” From a set of postcards put out by Brown Brothers; it is likely that the photographs are from Cooperstown’s James Fenimore Cooper Sesquicentennial Celebration in August and September of 1940. These are from Auger Down Books but Abe Books has a set too.

Actors dressed as leather- and fur-clad pioneers, and others in war bonnets and loincloths being Indians/Native Americans. Part of the “Pageant at Cooperstown” which was part of the Cooperstown’s James Fenimore Cooper Sesquicentennial Celebration in August and September of 1940. American. Brown Brothers, publishers. Image © 2026 Auger Down Books. Fair use license. https://www.augerdownbooks.com/pages/books/List2819/american-authors-upstate-new-york-brown-brothers/eight-real-photo-postcards-likely-from-the-james-fenimore-cooper-sesquicentennial-celebration

Scene with three actors, a riverboat and a birchbark canoe. Hard to tell. Part of the “Pageant at Cooperstown” which was part of the Cooperstown’s James Fenimore Cooper Sesquicentennial Celebration in August and September of 1940. American. Brown Brothers, publishers. Image © 2026 Auger Down Books. Fair use license. https://www.augerdownbooks.com/pages/books/List2819/american-authors-upstate-new-york-brown-brothers/eight-real-photo-postcards-likely-from-the-james-fenimore-cooper-sesquicentennial-celebration

Actors who might be portraying the parents of James Fenimore Cooper. Maybe not. Hard to tell. Part of the “Pageant at Cooperstown” which was part of the Cooperstown’s James Fenimore Cooper Sesquicentennial Celebration in August and September of 1940. American. Brown Brothers, publishers. Image © 2026 Auger Down Books. Fair use license. https://www.augerdownbooks.com/pages/books/List2819/american-authors-upstate-new-york-brown-brothers/eight-real-photo-postcards-likely-from-the-james-fenimore-cooper-sesquicentennial-celebration

James Fenimore Cooper wrote “The Last of the Mohicans” and other novels. Also, I’ve been to Cooperstown but a long time ago. After summer camp ended, my grandparents would take two grandchildren at a time (there were five of us altogether) and we would take week long trips going to various places in upstate New York. One year they took myself and my sister to Cooperstown.

Learn more about the pageant here https://jfcoopersociety.org/content/04-crit/articles/nyhistory/1941nyhistory-sesquicentennial.htm

Looking for a few up to the minute decor ideas before the Empress Eugenie comes to stay. Imagery from “The illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition” which was held in Paris in 1867. The catalogue appeared in print as a supplement to the publication “The Art-journal” in 1868.

*Clock – Greek in character, contributed to the 1867 Paris Universal Exposition by Paris Bronze Manufacturer M. Henri Houdebine.* Page 47 of *The illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 published with Art Journal* which was published in London and New York in 1868 by Virtue and Company. Cc0 License 3.0. https://archive.org/details/hartley52087804/page/n47/mode/1up

From the many and varied contributions of Mr. J. W. Benson – Goldsmith and Jeweller, of London – we select, for engraving, the CASKET in which was presented to Prince Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh) the freedom of the City of London. It is carved in oak by Mr. W. G. Rogers. Minute tracery of carved work and fine gold in high relief. Page 28 of *The illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 published with Art Journal* which was published in London and New York in 1868 by Virtue and Company. Cc0 License 3.0. https://archive.org/details/hartley52087804/page/n28/mode/1up

Messrs. Winfield and Company, of Birmingham, who have long-established repute for the production of works in Brass and Or-molu, more especially Bedsteads and Chandeliers, contribute several works of a high order, with reference to design as well as execution. of the CHANDELIERS we give two admirable examples; they are of considerable merit, and confer honour on the great capital of the metal district. We add one of the suspending pillars. Those who call to mind the collection exhibited by this eminent firm in 1862, will readily believe that these contributions manifest exceeding and invaluable perfection of finish. Page 81 of *The illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 published with Art Journal* which was published in London and New York in 1868 by Virtue and Company. Cc0 License 3.0. https://archive.org/details/hartley52087804/page/n81/mode/1up

The Paper-hangings (PAPIERS-PEINTS) of Paris maintain their high position; they have an excellence which the artists and artisans of other countries vainly strive to reach. We engrave on this page the decoration of the side of a room, and part of another, the manufacture of M. HOOUK, the successor of the long-renowned firm of DELICOURT, to which firm France was largely indebted for its supremacy in this art. The designs are applied by an eminent artist, M. VICTOR DUMONT. We can give no idea of the brilliancy and harmony of the colours employed. Page 266 of *The illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 published with Art Journal* which was published in London and New York in 1868 by Virtue and Company. Cc0 License 3.0. https://archive.org/details/hartley52087804/page/n266/mode/1up

*Front cover. Collections of the Hartley Institution Southampton Reference Library.* Image 1 of *The illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 published with Art Journal* which was published in London and New York in 1868 by Virtue and Company. Cc0 License 3.0. https://archive.org/details/hartley52087804/mode/1up

“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” for May 29th in the 2026 spring show . . .

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

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View of a house in Los Angeles, California looking past the courtyard towards the living room. June 2025 image. Faux miniature. Derek Swalwell, photographer. Rob Kennon Architects. via @newfielddesign on Instagram. From their Instagram.