Civil War

This photograph was taken near Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1861, photographer unknown. The soldier is from the New York State Militia and standing next to a cannon.

Courtship and Marriage

This is definitely an old photograph probably 1880's, but I was unable to get any particulars on it. I found it in The American Family; a history in photographs Viking Press New York 1976.

From the Kitchen

We were visiting a european settlement "museum" in Virginia, where they actually brought historical homes piece by piece from Europe and rebuilt them. The window in this painting comes from a photo I took of the English cottage there.

Gift of Music

The fiddler in this painting is Bill Hensley. It was taken by Ben Shahn of Asheville, North Carolina in 1937 at the Asheville Folk festival. The photograph was published in Southern Exposure, The Story of Southern Music in Pictures and Words by Richard and Bob Carlin Billboard Books 2000.

Little Bit of Fun

This is just a great photograph from 1939. The woman depicted here was a Cambridge University bedmaker, having a tea break and a joke of two. It was photgraphed by Gerti Deutsch. I found it in Hulton Getty Picture Collection 1930's.

On the Farm

This photograph dates back to the 1930's. The photographer was Wes McManigal and was published in A Memoir of the 1930's Farm Town, Stephen Greene Press 1987. I found the old tired look on this child's face most telling of the times he lived in.

Other Mothers

Dorothea Lange is one of my favorite of the new deal photographers. This photograph isn't one of her well-known ones. She called it ex-slave. It was taken in Alabama in 1938. The book it is published in is Dorothea Lange Looks at American Country Women, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth and the Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles 1973.

Politics

This is a wonderful photograph that dates back to 1938. It was titled Arkansas Cotton Grower. The voting box looked like a shoe box. It was dark outside when the photograph was taken by J.T. Mitchell. I found this in the book Official Images New Deal Photography.

Storytellers

Every storyteller needs a good comfortable chair in which to spin the tales. This painting comes from a vacation lodge in Northern Wisconsin that my husband went to as a child.

Supernatural

Over the years I have gathered together an extensive file of photographs from magazines etc. This is one of them though it wasn't as spooky looking as this.

When First Unto This Country

This is a photograph of what looks like an Italian family anticipating their first steps in the new land. The photographer was George Eastman House but there is no date on the photo. I found it in The American Family; a history in photographs Viking Press New York 1976.

Listen 0n-Line

This photograph is of the silent film star Gloria Swanson. It was taken in 1922. She was listening, over the wireless, to a review of her latest film.

Tell a Friend

This photograph dates 1952. The photographer was John G. Moebes.