Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Completely Bizarre: Horse Diving
From the early 1900's to the late 1970's spectators watched horses dive into a pool of water in Atlantic City, NJ. I doubt PETA would be okay with this today.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Vintage Savannah Postcards
There are so many things I miss about Savannah, and these postcards that I found really embody them. Forsyth Park, Tybee Beach, and shopping on Broad Street. I need to plan trip back soon!
Friday, March 25, 2011
National Cherry Blossom Festival March 26-April 10, 2011
The National Cherry Blossom Festival begins tomorrow and ends on April 10th in D.C.. I'm hoping to take a trip to D.C. during this "peak blooming" time. The cherry trees were given to our nation's capital in 1912, by the people of Japan.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Postcards from Michigan
I had a lot of fun treasure hunting at an antique store here in Virginia last weekend. I managed to find some wonderful postcards from the great hand-shaped state of Michigan. The Flint postcard is from 1909 and the illustrated building cards are from the 1930s. I also picked up postcards from all over the place, so more to post later!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Russian Empire Photographs 1905-1915
Words can not describe how utterly obsessed I am with the Library of Congress Online Prints & Photographs Catalog. I especially enjoy the photographs of the Russian Empire taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in the early 1900s. Color photography had not yet been invented, so Prokudin-Gorskii photographed each subject in black and white on a glass plate negative, using red, green and blue filters. He displayed his imagery using a light-projection system involving the same three colored filters. The Library of Congress has combined his black and white negatives and converted them into color. There are over 2,500 of these lovely images on their site and I'm having a hard time deciding which are my favorite. Any of these photographs would look fantastic hanging on a wall or as room decor.
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