GA – PEACHES.

Georgia is for peaches! 1. Smyrna, 1953. Church Service Ad. Roadside object.–from field notes.2. Dalton, ca. 1930. Afghan woven by Blanche Gardner.3. Georgia Peaches.4. Roswell, 1978. Runner Terry McCarver does not miss a stride in reaching for a drink from Lynn Roberts during a local road race.5. Atlanta, Georgia, 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., [...]

FL – MOD DUTCH.

Enjoy Florida beaches & The Wolfsonian’s Modern Dutch Collection at the State University Libraries of Flordia. This goes out to my old boss/friend Arjen & who is moving back to Holland this summer with his wife Christie. They will be missed and hopefully visited by me in Holland soon! 1. Ons thuis : geïllustreerd maandschrift [...]

AR – ARTS&LORE.

Arkansas was a tough dig image-wise. The shiniest gem I found was a folksy collection of alphabetical MP3s recordings. Subjects reflecting on life in the Ozarks ranging from Anglo Saxon Seed Bed to Zinc. I liked the Superstitions broadcast. According to the Ozark omens I should expect an unwanted visitor tonight as I happened to [...]

AL – YEARBOOK IT.

This summer NisN is going to take a virtual road trip across the digital archives of America — Alabama to Wyoming. YeeHaw! First installment, Alabama. Brownie Yearbook from Jones Valley High School, 1976. via Birmingham Public Library

UNIVERSAL CRAFT CARDS.

Learn from the Universal School of Weaving Draft sample cards. It’s not just the beautiful colors and textures of the samples but it’s the so seventies hand lettering and woodcut Universal School of Handicraft seal that makes me love these oak tag sample cards. Weavers in the Appalachian area worked on their own and often [...]

HUICHOL & TEPEHUAN FASHION.

COLORS, layers! Talented weavers & yarn painters. I’d like to learn from these women all things related to textile, color & making. Huichol & Tepehuan are indigenous ethnic groups in Mexico. Street fashion photography via Mexico Culture

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