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.
Tag: American
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.
See the link to see it bigger https://digital.lib.umd.edu/resultsnew/id/umd:687756?query=Adele%20Stamp
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
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).
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.
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/
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/
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..
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.
Summery beach pictures not wanting to wait for June. American. Beatrice Whitney Van Ness, artist. 20th century.
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.
