Off for the summer and having fun at YMCA Camp Pawatinika in Anne Arundel County, Maryland in the United States. Late 1920s images from various archives.

Women diving off a raft at Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Camp Pawatinka, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 1929 image. American. A. Aubrey Bodine, photographer (1906-1970). Baltimore City Life Museum Glass Negatives Collection, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture. https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/women-diving-off-pier-at-ywca-camp-pawatinka/
Waving from the water by the dock. Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Camp Pawatinka, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 1929 image. American. A. Aubrey Bodine, photographer (1906-1970). Baltimore City Life Museum Glass Negatives Collection, Maryland Historical Society https://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com/post/84842639788/ymca-camp-pawatinika-anne-arundel-county-maryland
Practicing strokes. Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Camp Pawatinka, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 1929 image. American. A. Aubrey Bodine, photographer (1906-1970). Baltimore City Life Museum Glass Negatives Collection, Maryland Historical Society https://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com/post/84842639788/ymca-camp-pawatinika-anne-arundel-county-maryland

The Queen of the May and her friends back in the early 20th century at the University of Maryland College Park. Not all maidens in white dresses but more costumed up. They still have these at a few women’s colleges in the United States. I would assume it is a British folk tradition that migrated to America.

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%20Stamp 
Woman 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 S
Kneeling 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%20Stamp
Women 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%20Stamp
May 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%20Stamp
May 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%20Stamp
May 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%20Stamp
June 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%20Stamp
The 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%20Stamp
Six 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%20Stamp
Cleopatra 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%20Stamp
A 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%20Stamp
Dance 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

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.

Dance poses in the style of Isadora Duncan. Early 1920s. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photo album kept by vaudeville actress and model Dolores Peters. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/689/early-1920s-vaudeville-actress-and-model-photo-album-scrapbook
Dance poses in the style of Isadora Duncan. Early 1920s. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photo album kept by vaudeville actress and model Dolores Peters. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/689/early-1920s-vaudeville-actress-and-model-photo-album-scrapbook
Dance poses in the style of Isadora Duncan. Early 1920s. American. Photographer not given. Taken from a photo album kept by vaudeville actress and model Dolores Peters. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/689/early-1920s-vaudeville-actress-and-model-photo-album-scrapbook
Dolores Peters wearing a dress with a multi-colored skirt. Early 1920s. American. Taken from a photo album kept by vaudeville actress and model Dolores Peters. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/689/early-1920s-vaudeville-actress-and-model-photo-album-scrapbook
Dolores Peters modeling fur coats. Early 1920s. American. Tornello, New York, photographer. Taken from a photo album kept by vaudeville actress and model Dolores Peters. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/689/early-1920s-vaudeville-actress-and-model-photo-album-scrapbook

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.

Ivy Day at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. 1914-1917. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.
Ivy Day at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 1914. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.
Cast of a student play, it looks like but I don’t actually know as it doesn’t say. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 1914-1917. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.
Mountain Day. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 1914-1917. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.

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).

San Francisco, California in 1970 watching the cable car inch its way up.

Oh to be here

Summer into fall and the new year about to begin. Funny. Decades living where the year starts in January but growing up in Boston with so many schools everyone starts over in September even if you are 103.

Fun back then and wanting to stay forever but a handsome young man living around the corner who went to West Point and ending up traveling the globe one army base at a time. Children that pick up new languages at the drop of a hat with mothers who only know the words for “gin and tonic” and “Where is the dress shop, please?”

All of that fun with dolls and other fun things sent back to relatives who never travel further than their feet will take them but still . . . .fun it was back at school . . .four years all in the same place and a college bookstore that never moved the hand lotion instead of a new PX and having to dig things out like a dog digging in the sand . . . Christmas and being an elf in red tights with a green tunic and a headdress with tinkling bells . . .  a vision it was and a treasure forever. . .

Georgia State Women’s College (now Valdosta State University), Valdosta, Georgia. Page 19 from the Georgia State Womans College 25 Year Anniversary Bulletin, 1913-1938. PDF Link here https://buff.ly/3wEWdhv Screenshot from a PDF of it. I found the link at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections on Facebook. What is now Valdosta State University was called Georgia State Woman’s College from 1922 to 1950.

Watercolors of interior spaces by American illustrator Jeremiah Goodman. Living from 1922 to 2017, he he worked as an illustrator for Lord and Taylor, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, along with creating the monthly covers of Interior Design Magazine. 

Diana Vreeland “Garden in Hell” Living Room. New York. Designed by Billy Baldwin. 1985. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/
Dining room, 19 Rue de Constantine, Paris, France.
Don Carlos de Beistegui, collector and interior designer. 1960. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/

Grand Hotel a Villa Feltrinelli, salon, Lake Garda, Italy.
Designed by Pamela Babey for Bob Burns. 1998. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/

“Monster” fireplace, tower living room, Porto Ercole, Italy.
Designed by Renzo Mongiardino for Elsa Peretti, jewelry designer and philanthropist. 2000. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/

Visions of an older America. Landscapes by Asher Brown Durand. Living from 1796 to 1886, he was part of the Hudson River School..

Landscape. 1859. American. Oil on canvas. Asher Brown Durand, painter (1796-1886). Signed and dated A B Durand 1859 on the lower left. Collections of and image © the Princeton University Art Museum. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. Fair use license. via https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/27252

Progress (The Advance of Civilization). 1853. American. Oil on canvas. Asher Brown Durand, painter (1796-1886). Photo credit: Travis Fullerton. Collections of and image © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Progress_by_Asher_Brown_Durand.jpg

Kaaterskill Landscape. 1850. American. Oil on canvas. Asher Brown Durand, painter (1796-1886). Collections of and image © the Princeton University Art Museum. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1850,_Durand,_Asher_Brown,_Kaaterskill_Landscape.jpg

Trade cards meant to help you live around your wallpaper, not the other way around. Trade cards from the early days of the last century by M. H. Birge and Sons, a major American wallpaper firm located in Buffalo, New York.

Library. Green wallpaper with a floral frieze. 1885.
Library. Green wallpaper with a floral frieze. 1885. Image © 2019 Bolling & Company. Trade card in the public domain due to age. via https://bollingco.com/collections/m-h-birge-sons

Dining room. 1906-1907.
Dining room. 1906-1907. Image © 2019 Bolling & Company. Trade card in the public domain due to age. via https://bollingco.com/collections/m-h-birge-sons

Parlor interior. From Birge's "Decorative Suggestions," published in 1914.
Parlor interior. From Birge’s “Decorative Suggestions,” published in 1914. Image © 2019 Bolling & Company. Trade card in the public domain due to age. via https://bollingco.com/collections/m-h-birge-sons

Interior with floral wallpaper. 1906.
Interior with floral wallpaper. 1906. Postcard. In the public domain. via https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/496733033881625622/?lp=true

Summery beach pictures not wanting to wait for June. American. Beatrice Whitney Van Ness, artist. 20th century.

"Summer Sunlight." ca. 1936.
“Summer Sunlight.” ca. 1936. Oil on canvas. Image © National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Fair use license. via https://wayback.archive-it.org/2972/20181115101812/http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=detail&object_id=661

"Umbrellas at the Beach." No date.
“Umbrellas at the Beach.” No date. Oil on canvas. Image via Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers. Fair use license. via https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/beatrice-whitney-van-ness-american-1888-1981-um-207-c-b9bul18bm8

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“Ogunquit Beach Scene.” 1913. Oil on canvasboard. Image © Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield. Fair use license. via https://www.pinterest.com/pin/426786502158682223/?lp=true

American women all dressed up and standing in front of interesting backgrounds. Emma Fordyce MacRae, artist. Member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of female artists.

"Roland in Red." 1926.
“Roland in Red.” 1926. Oil on board. © 1999 – 2019 SKINNER, INC. Fair use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2841B/lots/439

"The Dreamer." 1928.
“The Dreamer.” 1928. Private collection. Image © 2000–2018 The Athenaeum. Fair use license. via https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=140288

"Summer Flowers." Date unknown.
“Summer Flowers.” Date unknown. Private Collection. Image © 2000–2018 The Athenaeum. Fair use license. via https://theartstack.com/artist/emma-fordyce-macrae/summer-flowers-6