Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Author: sarahbguestperry
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.
Daybreak. Leather-stocking’s Expedient (Episode from James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Prairie”). 1830s-1840s. Watercolor on paper with black ink, gouache and glazing over graphite. George Harvey, watercolorist (1799-1880). Signed G. HARVEY on the lower right. Collections of the New York Historical Society. Artwork is in the public domain due to age. via https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/george-harveys-anglo-american-atmospheric-landscapes/Sunrise. Flatbush and the Ocean from the Green-Wood Cemetery L. I. [Brooklyn], New York.1830s-1840s. Watercolor, graphite, gouache, selective glazing, and scratching out on paper, formerly laid on buff card. George Harvey, watercolorist (1799-1880). Signed G. HARVEY on the lower right. Collections of the New York Historical Society. Artwork is in the public domain due to age. via https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/george-harveys-anglo-american-atmospheric-landscapes/Sunset. The Outlet of Cayuga and Seneca Lakes, New York. 1830s-1840s. Watercolor, graphite, selective glazing, gouache, and scratching out on paper, formerly laid on buff card. George Harvey, watercolorist (1799-1880). Signed G. HARVEY on the lower right. Collections of the New York Historical Society. Artwork is in the public domain due to age. via https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/george-harveys-anglo-american-atmospheric-landscapes/Early Twilight. Kaatskill [Catskill] Landing and Mountains from the East Bank of the Hudson River, New York. 1830s-1840s. Watercolor, graphite, selective glazing, gouache, and scratching out on paper, formerly laid on buff card. George Harvey, watercolorist (1799-1880). Signed G. HARVEY on the lower right. Collections of the New York Historical Society. Artwork is in the public domain due to age. via https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/george-harveys-anglo-american-atmospheric-landscapes/
Source: decorativeartrust via beardbriarandrose.tumblr.com only one of these but I think I’ll go down to the cruise ship dock and see if I can get a ticket for Paris.
Women dressed as gypsy dancers posing with each other for a May Day celebration held at the University of Maryland College Park on May 15, 1930. College Park, Maryland. Photographer not given. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:687756?query=Adele%20StampWoman posing dressed as a gypsy dancer for a May Day celebration held at the University of Maryland College Park on May 15, 1930. College Park, Maryland. Photographer not given. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:687758?query=Adele%20Stamp SKneeling before the May Queen, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. 1923. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:97659?query=Adele%20StampWomen posing while dressed as gypsy dancers with tambourines for the May Day celebrations, May 15, 1930. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:687754?query=Adele%20StampMay Queen, Evelyn Rideout, and her court at May Day celebrations, May 15, 1930. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:687750?query=Adele%20StampMay Day Court, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. 1940-1950 image. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:96377?query=Adele%20StampMay Day procession on McKeldin Mall, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. 1940-1950 image. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:96370?query=Adele%20StampJune Barnesly as the May Day Queen processing with two young boys carrying her train. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. 1936 image. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:3622?query=Adele%20StampThe May Queen makes her entrance to the University of Maryland May Day festivities from the Main Administration Building, followed by a procession of young children, May 10, 1960. College Park, Maryland. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age.https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:66609?query=Adele%20StampSix women dressed as walruses during May Day celebrations at the University of Maryland. The May Day theme was “Characters of the Watery Wave.” College Park, Maryland. Image ca. 1929. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:89599?query=Adele%20StampCleopatra on a throne, University of Maryland Maye Daye, 1937. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:100746?query=Adele%20StampA group of female students dressed as hillbillies and dancing on stage, University of Maryland Maye Daye, circa 1931-1940. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:100750?query=Adele%20StampDance of the Stars, University of Maryland May Day, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Image ca. 1923-1931. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:100716?query=Adele%20Stamp Two women dressed in kimonos, University of Maryland Maye Daye, circa 1923-1930. College Park, Maryland. Photograph from a page of Adele H. Stamp’s May Day scrapbook. Adele H. Stamp Papers, University of Maryland Archives. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:100718?query=Adele%20Stamp
The Amazon. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8fe5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Embroidery in Bullion from Tunis. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8fe8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Specimens of Turkish Embroidery. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8fee-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99A group of objects in glass – cut and engraved. Consisting of an engraved claret, and cut cream jug by Green of London – a Venetian champagne and an engraved ale glass by Bacchus of Birmingham – and an engraved claret glass and cut salt cellar by Apsley Pellatt of London. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8ff6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99“Cassette” carved in ivory, exhibited by Matifat of Paris. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8ff9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Black lace flounce, (Nottingham manufacture) by Greasely and Hopcroft. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-9002-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Metal bedstead, by Winfield of Birmingham. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-900e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99A Chinese looking glass in carved wood frame. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-9019-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Pianofortes by Collard and Collard of London. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-901e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99The Coventry ribbon, and specimens of ribbons from Saint Etienne, France. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-901f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (with Dugald Stewart’s Monument). 1838. British. Frontispiece, Page 7 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n7/mode/1upColdstream, from the English side (Berwickshire). 1838. British. Page 38 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . H. Griffiths, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n38/mode/1upDryburghe Abbey, Roxburghshire (the burial place of Sir Walter Scott). 1838. British. Page 62 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . J. C, Varrall, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n62/mode/1upFast Castle Berwickshire; The Royal squadron conveying His Majesty King George IV towards Edinburgh. 1838. British. Page 68 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . S. Fisher, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n68/mode/1upDunbar Castle (Lothian). 1838. British. Page 79 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . W. R. Smith, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n79/mode/1upTamtallan Castle (East Lothian). 1838. British. Page 89 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . R Sands, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n89/mode/1upInterior of Roslyn Chapel (Mid Lothian). 1838. British. Page 112 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . J. Cleghorn, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n112/mode/1upThe Royal Institution, Edinburgh. 1838. British. Page 112 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . W. Deeble, engraver after an illustration by G. M. Kemp. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n112/mode/1upHolyrood Chapel, Edinburgh. 1838. British. Page 159 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . H. Adlard, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n159/mode/1upThe Canongate during the procession of His Majesty George IV (Edinburgh, August 22nd, 1822). 1838. British. Page 182 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . J. Conson, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n182/mode/1upStirling Castle. 1838. British. Page 219 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . W. Wallis, engraver after an illustration by Thomas Allom. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n219/mode/1upBridge of Doune (tam-o-shanter); Dedicated to Allan Cunningham, Esq. (biographer of Burns). 1838. British. Page 243 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . G. K. Richardson, engraver after an illustration by W. H. Bartlett. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n243/mode/1upIsle of Arran from Greenan Castle (Ayrshire). 1838. British. Page 253 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . H. Adlard, engraver after an illustration by W. H. Bartlett. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n253/mode/1upBanks of the Water of Ayr (near Ballochmyle). 1838. British. Page 265 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . S. Fisher, engraver after an illustration by W. H. Bartlett. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n265/mode/1upDrumlanrig Castle (Dumfries-shire). 1838. British. Page 278 of William Beattie’s Scotland illustrated in a series of views , , . H. Adlard, engraver after an illustration by W. H. Bartlett. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/scotlandillustr01beat/page/n278/mode/1up
Swimming pool, Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere https://calisphere.org/item/b6818d7e92ebacedf0e2e93ab6b52d89/Swimming pool, Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/15c9409138970596256001a32bf3c309/Lobby, the Residence, Fernhurst. Possibly the Young Womens Christian Association in Honolulu, Hawaii. Undated image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/d8c0ff5a870fa0a886d773e9b2f577fb/Library and sitting room. Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/b2c54641d06921845aa664ae77b6295d/Loggia and courtyard. Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/7fc8de65b37454ed964138f028d74f66/Exterior, grounds and entrance driveway, the Residence, Fernhurst. Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/7f04c0570a3d682e893c21e61b138fa9/ Cafeteria, the Residence, Fernhurst. Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/9360c4a96b224b03fb77e38a28dd3ccc/Main lobby Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1930-1939. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/6e8abc84fc7ac471d7380d5aeb446f59/Exterior and view of the loggia. Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1930-1939. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/f5d6d878960068e90a7bba45bb2e9bf8/Upper loggia. Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1930-1939. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/26fca228c6e13841dc2542a6856db5a2/Library and sitting room, Honolulu Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, Image ca. 1930-1939. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/e1561779621a4af167603ad414fb6964/Lobby, the Residence, Fernhurst. Possibly the Young Womens Christian Association in Honolulu, Hawaii. Undated image ca. 1950-1959. American. Photographer not given. Sara Holmes Boutelle Papers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. via Calisphere the archives of the University of California. https://calisphere.org/item/0a89131636020f666143e75b2c7f83c4/
These photographs are archived in California, not Hawaii, because they are part of the papers of Californian Sara Holmes Boutelle who was an architectural historian and wrote a biography of Julia Morgan who designed the YWCA seen here. I am sorry the resolution on these is not higher.