SISTER TOMBOY

Get the look—pail, porch and overalls. Add dirt, remove shoes. Elsie and Rachel Stewart of Brasstown, NC, 1931. Photographs by Doris Ullman via University of Oregon  

QUILT BLOCKS

Alone, before the stitch. via Quilts and Quiltmaking in America: 1978 – 1996

I ♥ FL

I love Florida! I proclaimed earlier today. Now I love again via WEIRD FRIENDS previously posted FL – Alphonso & Gran via Florida Memory

CHARMS

Neck ornaments or charms. Or wear a happy face. 1. Double faced personal charms, Central America; Mexico; Sonora; Tabasco; Oh-nah Camp 2-3. Neck ornaments or charms, Asia, Syria 4. Charms worn about neck, Asia, Syria via Peabody Museum at Harvard

COMMUNITY PICS

Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan January 21–May 8 2011 International Center of Photography, NYC …A barber by trade, Jordan took up photography to fill a need he recognized in his community, and over the course of his career actively documented the world in which he lived and worked, focusing on those civic [...]

TIN MEN

Gorgeous photographs of Civil War soldiers. 1. Lorenzo Hawkins of Company I, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer 2. Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with knitted stole 3. Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and forage cap 4. Unidentified young African American soldier in Union uniform Close to 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs highlight both Union and [...]

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