Category: Photographs

Summer looking like it might be coming in and time traveling the old camp brochures. Pictures from a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005) many of them of  Camp Pukwana on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927 ish. From an album up for sale by rare book dealer James Arsenault.

Group of campers at railroad station in Richville, Maine all wearing their middy tops with two of the older girls wearing their camp hats tilted to the side like the very popular cloche hats. They were probably campers at Camp Pukwana which is on Sebago Lake as is Richville so the closest train station. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography

‘Peggy’ Walton instructing swimming. Probably photographed at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Cast of ‘The Wonder Hat’ – Grace Lorraine, Huldah Williams, Mary Leigh Seaton, and Gene Edmundson. Camp play, probably at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Mary Leigh Seaton and Huldah Williams. From the same camp play as they are wearing the same costumes as Harlequin and (probably) Columbine with the white pajama and dark pom poms. Photograph, probably taken at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Dance in the Historic Play – Camp Pukwana – 1921. Sebago Lake, Maine. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Hiking or on a walking trip and wearing middy tops and what were called gym skirts (what we would call culottes). They were probably campers at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography

Window shopping where Joan Crawford goes. Adrian’s fashion house, owned by the Adrian who designed costumes for MGM. Also did Judy Garland’s ruby slippers and the flying monkeys wings for “The Wizard of Oz.”

Main entrance/exterior view of Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4875
Interior with the woman in the black dress in the background standing next to a very large mannequin dressed as a Victorian lady being a  live model/living mannequin. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4868
View looking past the stairs, the woman in the black dress being the same live model/living mannequin standing next to same large mannequin in Victorian clothing holding the same parasol. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4869
View shot from the Victorian clothing clad mannequin’s location looking towards the front of the shop with desks for sales staff on either side of the stairs with a couch and coffee table for customers on the left along with a display of high heeled shoes next to the desk on the left. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4870
Hat department, Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4871
Space with couches, coffee tables and a hat being displayed with ? handbags over on the right. Where customers would sit while the living model (s) modeled evening gowns or other garments so a customer could make her selection. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4872
Close up detail of the same space showing the stage over on the right with its columns with Ionic capitals where the living mannequins modeled the evening gowns. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4873

Another view of the exterior of Adrian’s fashion house. Delmar Shoes was not part of Adrian’s fashion house and was a separate retail business as far as I can tell. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4874

What gorgeous Art Deco/Art Moderne. The opposite of shopping at Target for sure.

Learn a bit more about Adrian here https://cinemascholars.com/scholars-spotlight-costume-designer-gilbert-adrian/#google_vignette

Sick and tired of counting up the money in the vault at the bank. Off for a week to shovel in the cotton candy and dance to the music at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, which was held in Omaha, Nebraska, June 1st to November 1st, 1898.

Bandstand, Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska USA. Postcard. John Ross Key, artist. L. Prang and Company, publishers. Louis Prang and Company Collection, Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:w66347128
North from Administration Arch. Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898, Omaha, Nebraska USA. Image © 1898 F. A. Rinehart, Omaha. Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society. https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_5421bb8a-8fb7-4529-9ebf-9d1cf844e691/
Crowd in bleachers: Sitting in the bleachers waiting for the next thing to start: Black and white photograph of people sitting in bleachers as part of the Congress of the American Indian in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. The photograph is labeled “Crowd in bleachers”. 1898 photograph. Under © CC BY-NC 4.0. via the Nebraska State Historical Society Crowd in bleachers: Sitting in the bleachers waiting for the next thing to start: Black and white photograph of people sitting in bleachers as part of the Congress of the American Indian in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. The photograph is labeled “Crowd in bleachers”. 1898 photograph. Under © CC BY-NC 4.0. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_9bbf0d59-7de8-4015-a547-6e3e78cb4476/
Indian (sic) Day Parade, August 4, 1898: People participating in a parade for the Congress of the American Indian in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition held in Omaha Nebraska USA. August 4 1898 image. 1898 photograph. Under © CC BY-NC 4.0. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_4369dfdf-e58c-404f-9def-09ae76a541fd/
Western Electrical Company’s display of electric light fixtures at the the Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha Nebraska USA. 1898 image. F. A. Rinehart, Photos, Omaha photographer. Under ©. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_22a46e90-e89d-4570-bb71-203d905a5a2d/
Group of People in the “Streets of Cairo” Exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. held in Omaha Nebraska USA. 1898 glass plate negative. F. A. Rinehart, Photos, Omaha photographer. Under ©. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_a4782874-d52f-496b-8ff1-adf42c897c8d/

Visions of a California that isn’t coming back, including photographs of the Hotel Coronado where Mrs. Simpson is supposed to have met the future Duke of Windsor while going through a receiving line with her United States Navy officer first husband. ca. 1900-1910. From an album for sale by rare book dealer James Arsenault.

Tent City on Coronado Beach. San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Camping scene on Mount Wilson (picturing a woman cooking and a girl reading in a hammock). San Gabriel Mountains, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Tent City, Coronado Beach. San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
1318: Scene in Tropical Court, Hotel Coronado, San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Scene showing tourists riding on a camel. Venice Beach, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
278: Westlake Park, Los Angeles, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
771 Twin palms near Pasadena, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
249 Avalon Catalina Island. California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
267 New bath house, Long Beach, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects

Perk up your afternoon by learning to square dance. Imagery from various California archives. Admittedly I can’t remember how to square dance because where I grew up it was an elementary school gym class thing. Love the big gingham skirted dresses, though.

Los Angeles Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California USA (Associated Square Dancers). September 20, 1959 image. American. Felix Paegel, photographer for the Los Angeles Examiner Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. University of Southern California Special Collections. https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OPRIQ2X?&WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP
Booked for April 7 Dance Festival: Photograph caption dated March 28, 1962 reads, “The famous North Hollywood dancing group that calls itself the Hollywood Square Dancers are busy rehearsing for their April 7 appearance at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Here, director homer Garrett, rear, does the calling as, from left, Shirley Green and Carl Hakkila and Sharon Garrett and Frisco Estes do just one of the ‘steps’ they’ll display in the International Folk Dance Festival. On that Saturday, actress Greer Garson will be the commentator as more than 300 dancers, singers and musicians from 20 nations present the 15th annual folk festival.” North Hollywood, California, USA. March 28, 1962 image. American. Jeff Goldwater, photographer for the Valley Times newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/49137

New ‘A Square D’ directors.” Caption dated July 18, 1960 reads, Mr. and Mrs. George Burton of Van Nuys, new directors of ‘A Square D’ sample punch at square dance ‘graduation’ party. They will direct activities of more than 70 valley square dance clubs in first district during the coming year.” They are wearing gingham square dancing outfits made from the same gingham fabric and the dolls in front of Mrs. Burton are costumed in the same gingham. California USA. July 18, 1960 image. American. Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/57023

Twirl your honey: Photograph caption dated August 17, 1960 reads, “Square dance caller Clyde Drivere and wife, Joyce, of Chatsworth, left, show Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pothier of Northridge square dance steps atop old chuck wagon near Peterson’s Barn in Thousand Oaks. Drivere teaches class, known as Pi R Squares at 8 p.m. every Tuesday in barn, located at end of James road Thousand Oaks.” Thousand Oaks, California, USA. August 17, 1960 image. American. Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/49100
Y-Knots will twirl at dance: Photograph caption dated June 7, 1960 reads, “No wings – Y-Knot Twirlers, Jeanette Ronser, Reseda, left, and Sharon Garrett, North Hollywood, fly through air with ease, guided by Ralph Garrett, North Hollywood, back to camera, and Frisco Estes, Van Nuys.” California, USA. June 7, 1960 image. American. Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/49099

Off to college soon and looking for a place where the students like having fun. Plenty of time to study later. Imagery from the “Maid of Athens” 1923 yearbook of what was then Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University) in Athens, Alabama in the United States.

Joining the sisters of Sigma Delta for dinner, a few of the girls being very fashion forward with the ribbons that you wore tied across the middle of your forehead. As opposed to a headband kind of thing. Very chic in the 1920s. At least one young lady has an Art Deco era feather fan. Athens College for Young Women, Athens, Alabama. Page 74 of the 1923 edition of the “Maid of Athens,” yearbook (annual) of the Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University), Athens, Alabama. Collections of Athens State University. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/maidofathens1923athe/page/74/mode/1up
Processing under an arch of ribbons with the sisters of Phi Sigma. Athens College for Young Women, Athens, Alabama. Page 75 of the 1923 edition of the “Maid of Athens,” yearbook (annual) of the Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University), Athens, Alabama. Collections of Athens State University. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/maidofathens1923athe/page/75/mode/1up
Singing in the Club or drumming in the Orchestra. Athens College for Young Women, Athens, Alabama. Page 95 of the 1923 edition of the “Maid of Athens,” yearbook (annual) of the Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University), Athens, Alabama. Collections of Athens State University. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/maidofathens1923athe/page/83/mode/1up

Off to the Finger Lakes and coming back later. I’ll send a wire so you can meet me at Grand Central with a bunch of daisies. Imagery from an 1891 promotional pamphlet urging tourists to visit Lake Keuka that was probably paid for by the Bath and Hammondsport Railroad and Lake Keuka Steamers as their timetables are prominently listed. Where my mother went to college and I went to camp, too.


Front cover, Page 7, Image 6, of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/n6/mode/1up
Bath and Hammondsport Rail Road Docks; Among the Wooded Points – Major Gardner’s Cottage. Page 8 Image 16 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/8/mode/1up
Urbana Wine Company. Page 10 Image 18 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/10/mode/1up
Urbana – to and from the Vineyards. Love the sailboat and the canoe, and the tourists posing with the canoe paddle. Page 12 Image 20 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/12/mode/1up
The Land of Vineyards. Page 16 Image 24 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/16/mode/1up
Bluff Point (upper image and lower left) and the Keuka Hotel: The Fisherman’s Favorite Waters. Page 18 Image 26 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/18/mode/1up
Among the Villas (and a nice boathouse too). Page 19 Image 27 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/19/mode/1up
Camping. Page 27 Image 35 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/27/mode/1up
Penn Yan: The Piers and Fall Brook Rail Road. Page 30 Image 38 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/30/mode/1up
Trout caught in the Deep Pools. Page 40 Image 48 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/n39/mode/1up

Living a life with entirely different furniture along with entirely new curtains. Rumsinteriör (Room interiors) in Swedish homes. Not much information with these like whose bedroom it was but in the Swedish archives and up on the Internet Archive where lots of interesting pictures live.

Dressing room? leading into the bedroom past the fabric draped doorway with various potted plants and a framed photograph of two women dressed in white standing on top of the desk. One of those fun child motif statuettes, too. 1895-1900. Location not given but presumably in Sweden because it is in Arkivkopia, the Archive of Swedish cultural commons/Stockholm Digital Museum. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digstad-SSMC003289S-0
Dining room, the chairs having caned backs. Also a clock and marble or ceramic busts on wooden stands on either side of the fireplace with ots mantle covered with various ornaments including? an animal horn with silver mounts. 1895-1900. Location not given but presumably in Sweden because it is in Arkivkopia, the Archive of Swedish cultural commons/Stockholm Digital Museum. via the Internet Archive https://dn710704.ca.archive.org/0/items/arkivkopia.se-digmus-olm-OLM-2008-1-326/032wYWVnnWcU.jpg
Parlor/living room, the sofa, table and chairs with their striped upholstery being antiques along with the paintings. The rug looks later, maybe. So published in 1950 but with the furnishings being much older. Location not given but presumably in Sweden as the photograph is in the collections of the Örebro County Museum and because it is in Arkivkopia, the Archive of Swedish cultural commons. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-olm-OLM-91-102-3964
Sitting room with the table set for a party with a large potted hyacinth? over on the right. 1909 image. Location not given but presumably in Sweden as the photograph is in the collections of the Örebro County Museum and because it is in Arkivkopia, the Archive of Swedish cultural commons. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-olm-OLM-92.149.764-1
Parlor with potted palms, at least one ceramic or marble statuette and a few lamps with ruffled silk lampshades.
Also a three piece upholstered parlor set, a settee and two armchairs. 1890-1920 image. Location not given but presumably in Sweden as the photograph is in it is in Arkivkopia, the Archive of Swedish cultural commons. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digstad-SSMC003274S-0
Rumsinteriör. Fru Åqvist. Lady’s dressing room, the vanity with an organdy? skirt and three lamps with ruffled silk shades. 1957 image. Swedish, exact location not given. Arkivkopia, the Archive of Swedish cultural commons. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-olm-OLM-91-102-12550
Svartå Herrgård, rumsinteriör. Bedroom. Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden. Image published in 1968 with the bed, portraits and the furniture being older. Collections of the Örebro County Museum via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-olm-OLM-91-102-16876

Off to study the Esquimaux. Roughing it in the land of snow yes but not the land of igloos. No, the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Alberta, Canada. Every refinement and a boiler in the basement heating the place up to a fare thee well.

Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Inaugural banquet at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Associations, Clubs and Societies:  Inaugural banquet at the Cosmopolitan Hotel following the first “Ritual of Jewels” ceremony for the Sorority. These ladies are the Charter Members of the Beta Sigma Phi in Medicine Hat. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. October 1945 image. Photographer not given. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. vhttps://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Cosmopolitan&p=1&ps=20&src_facet=Photograph
The Bachelors of the Cosmopolitan Hotel: portrait of five men, three unidentified, members of the Bachelors Club of the Cosmopolitan Hotel.Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Photograph ca. 1906. J. E. Miers, Medicine Hat, photographer. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images103109

Inside view of the dining room in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Looks like its set up for a party or banquet. Undated photograph 1890s-1915? partly because of the Victorian/Edwardian planter filled with ferns.
Gainsborough Studio, Medicine Hat, photographers. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images71093
Cosmopolitan Hotel, South Railway Street and Fourth Street Southeast. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Image ca. 1912. George N. Bartlett, Medicine Hat, photographer. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images71445
“Public parlour” of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, showing piano and seating arrangement, and gas light fixtures. Also potted ferns. Taken from hand-tinted original Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. ca. 1900. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images107855
Interior view of the front half of the lobby of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Shows entryway, lobby seating, elaborate gas and electric fixtures, stained glass windows, front registration desk, and stairway to the second floor. Two hotel guests can be seen through the front window seated in chairs outside. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Image ca. 1900. Photographer not given. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images107856

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Silver Anniversary banquet in the decorated dining room of the Cosmopolitan Hotel – engineers and their ladies. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Loving the ceiling decorations. January 1923 image. Photographer not given. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images109638

Home until spring with a pot of split pea soup on the stove and a bread baking in the oven. A set of photographs shot in 1969 of the house at 5 Tucker Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts which was built at the end of the 17th century. But what caught my eye is the entire bookcase stuffed with cookbooks. More than my mother’s cookbook collection and hers was huge. Too fun!

Cookbooks (including “How to Cook and Eat in Russian,” published in 1947 and “La Bonne Cuisine de Madame E. Saint-Ange” which came out in 1927. Not spotting anything by Julia Child, however). 5 Tucker Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts.1965 (I think) photograph. American. Samuel Chamberlain, photographer. Samuel Chamberlain Photographs Negative Collection, Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Copyright undetermined but the photographer died in 1975 so his estate, presumably. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:9g5513628

Library with contemporary magazines in the magazine rack just past the sofa. 5 Tucker Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Image ca. 1965. American. Samuel Chamberlain, photographer. Samuel Chamberlain Photographs Negative Collection, Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Copyright undetermined but the photographer died in 1975 so his estate, presumably. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cr56qk11w

Dining room with the cookbooks seen in image one appearing here. 5 Tucker Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Image ca. 1965. American. Samuel Chamberlain, photographer. Samuel Chamberlain Photographs Negative Collection, Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Copyright undetermined but the photographer died in 1975 so his estate, presumably. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:1r66mj23q
Front Hall. 5 Tucker Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Image ca. 1965. American. Samuel Chamberlain, photographer. Samuel Chamberlain Photographs Negative Collection, Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Copyright undetermined but the photographer died in 1975 so his estate, presumably. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sx61h456p
Master bedroom. 5 Tucker Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Image ca. 1965. American. Samuel Chamberlain, photographer. Samuel Chamberlain Photographs Negative Collection, Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Copyright undetermined but the photographer died in 1975 so his estate, presumably. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3j335m80f
Another view of the Master bedroom with a telephone that is considerably earlier than 1965 sitting on the bedside table. 5 Tucker Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Image ca. 1965. American. Samuel Chamberlain, photographer. Samuel Chamberlain Photographs Negative Collection, Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Copyright undetermined but the photographer died in 1975 so his estate, presumably. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7w62hs77w

I don’t know why these photographs were taken as it doesn’t say nor does it say whether 5 Tucker Street was a house museum or a home inhabited by the owners as opposed to docents dressed like 1690 people though I know little of house museums as in my entire life I’ve only been in one and that was a long time ago. But there is very little put out that looks modern ish; I’ve been in a fair number of old houses packed with antiques because of my micro crafts business and even in homes furnished in real Chippendale there is a laptop sitting on the sideboard and a plastic bottle of Schweppes ginger ale out on the coffee table. But a fun set – I hope you like them too.