CT – DRESS UP.

Connecticut. Girls, boys and infant dresses. Pretty young things. 1. Girl’s dress.2. Girls’ dress owned by Mary Caroline Ogden Pierson.3. Boy’s dress probably owned by a member of the Filley family.4. Boy’s suit owned by Oliver Ormerod Jensen.5. Infant’s dress owned by a member of the Brainard family. via University of Connecticut

VIDEO GIRLS.

Video killed the—Staff and students making a video tape movie, Sydney Girls’ High School, 1984. via State Library New South Wales

TRAVEL PICS.

Retired scientist Galen Frysinger has traveled the world and seven seas. (172 independent countries plus 91 dependencies) Get lost in his intricate and dense photo archives. Wow.above: Greenland, Brazil, Greenland, Libya, Easter Island, Nauruvia Galen Frysinger      

NAGA NEW YEARS.

Naga New Year Festival in Myanmar. Visions of bright colors to get me through February! Photos by Bill via Bill’s Travel Pictures  

ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH.

Mongolian burial tower. Thysville Africa Dancing men in the jungle between Bumba and Aketi (Route Royale). Imam Reza. Turkestan. Bazaar: carpets from Daulatabad. ““Hazrat Ali” – tomb of the 2nd prophet. Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, traveler and photographer. In July 1939 she and ethnologist Ella Maillart drove from Switzerland to Afganistan via [...]

GARDEN PARTIES.

Elizabeth & Solita are back! with the kitties & plenty of gardens and parties to go ’round. I am revisiting the files of Elizabeth Jenks Clark and enjoying her at-home outdoor lifestyle. via Yale University Beinecke Rare Book Library  

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