Saturday, February 25, 2017
February 12, 1933
New York City views. Plaza buildings from Central Park. The Savoy Plaza and Plaza hotels. Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho.
Icon. Picasso
“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don’t know nor can I do anything else.” — Picasso
Unknown.
Unknown.
Friday, February 17, 2017
New York circa 1900. Unknown
Gillender Building. This improbably slender tower at the corner of Nassau and Wall Streets, one of the tallest buildings in the city when it was completed in 1897, met the wrecking ball in 1910.
1928, Beautiful England
Archery at Cowdray House, Easebourne, 1928. (Photo by Aerofilms Collection via “A History of Britain From Above”)
1939, Alabama
1939. Driveway looking away from William A. Dawson House, Mobile, Alabama. Spring Hill vicinity. Structure dates to 1840. Channeling the art of Edward Gorey by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Austria, 1924
E. O. Hoppe, Austrian farmer worker and child going home at the end of the day, Molln, Austria, 1924.
Library of Congress
Circa 1908. South corridor, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Detroit Publishing Company
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