Dress up the parlor before the Empress Eugenie comes to tea. Plates of the very latest 1860 Parisian furniture styles. D. Guilmard, artist and publisher. Published in Paris. One lot found on the website of rare book dealer Justin Croft.
Acting and modeling pictures taken from the photo album of early 1920s vaudeville actress and model Dolores Peters. Appearing in the Greenwich Village Follies, she was the younger sister of singer George Peters and pianist Jessie Peters.
Life at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1917. Taken from a photo album that appears to have belonged to a Rachel Blair who lived in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Found on the website of House of Mirth Photos.
Somewhere my grandmother is mad at me because she got kicked out of Smith about ten years later. However the album turned up and these are good pictures and those can be hard to find. Sorry, Helen Mulford Washburn Harden (ducks and runs).
Hand-fans decorated up with animals. Why not. Taken from the July email of Fan d’Eventails, Paris.
Paper fan leaf in watercolor of a fox terrier chasing a mouse. ca. 1900. Signed Ct. H. Blain or perhaps Cain for George Cain. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3579-the-ratter-dog-fan-leaf-circa-1900.html
Down to the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1901 with images taken from a photo album of a family summer kept by a tourist visiting Atlantic City that I found on the website of House of Mirth Photographs.
Off to the dance pavilion by two o’clock. An afternoon at the Norumbega Amusement Park, Auburndale (Newton), Massachusetts. Photographs from a photo album with memories of a visit ca. 1897 when it opened.
On the banks of the Charles River in Auburndale, the Norumbega Amusement Park opened in 1897 at the end of what is now the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s Riverside line which runs in the Norumbega right of way. It closed in the 1960s.
A summer at Camp Anawan for Girls which was on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. From 1914. Photographs taken from a photo album kept by one of the campers that is currently for sale on the website of House of Mirth Photos.
Dedicated to my grandmother Helen Blackwell Mulford Washburn Harden. She would have been I think seven or eight in 1914 when these pictures were taken during Camp Anawan’s second summer. Her father founded a camp for boys in northern Pennsylvania but at least where they were there were no camps for girls and my grandmother wanted to go to camp very much. She would have loved Camp Anawan.
Designs decorated with clouds and ducks and all sorts of wonderful things. French and by Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise who would be called an interior decorator nowadays. Born ca. 1830, he died in 1897.
Go on holiday with the Prince Regent. Hand-colored aquatint plates from Humphry Repton’s and J. C. Stadler’s folio “Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton.” Humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, these are watermarked 1822.
Humphry Repton was what we would call a landscape architect though he called himself “an improver of landscapes” and that he certainly was. He obtained many commissions from the Prince Regent (George IV). Several other blog posts here have more wonderful aquatints after his designs.
An Asia that is never coming back. Colored lithographs of what is now Myamar taken from “Views in the Burman Empire”, engraved by William Daniell after artwork by British army Captain James Kershaw who was part of the British force during the first Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-1826. Published in London in 1831.
