Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Botanical pictures with more than a whiff of a lei and a tropical sea. Taken from Mrs. Francis Sinclair’s “Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands” which was published in London in 1885.
“Ohai.” Page 105. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n105“Kolokolo-Kuahiwi. Page 126. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n126“Papala.” Page 194. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n194“Ohia-AI.” Page 182.Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n182“Ieie.” Page 30. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n30
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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