A recent find, an old cyanotype printed on postal card. It reads: "Aug. 29th 06 Dear Cousin / This is Grandpa among / his lima beans taken last / summer. With Love from Lucy." The back is postmarked North Anson, Maine, 29 August 1906, and addressed to Mrs. A. E. Hilton. {click image to view larger}
I just love, love, love it.
Some things:
* Camille's view of Maine
* The Clothesline
* and the dump (Yankee ingenuity)
I'm home sick I suppose (wish I was headed north for Labor Day).
Have a good weekend friends!
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so sweet, I love it
Thanks for introducing me to the term cyanotype; I had never heard it before and I have several of these blueish old photos and now I know what they are! So sorry you're homesick (I'm from Maine too), but sit tight---you know that DC is going to be gorgeous in the Fall after the humidity clears out.
super image! there is a lobster roll fest here tomorrow. at first i thought, yay! we can go and pretend we are in maine but then it hit me: it is supposed to be 95 degrees. and this is columbus...sigh...
happy weekend
1906: The days of heirloom beans and apples and other homegrown produce. And Grandpa so proud of his limas that he had his picture taken with them.
--Road to Parnassus
Oh how wonderful!! "Grandpa among his lima beans" has such a ring to it, too. Love it!
kate ~ can you imagine photographing that scene? Wonderful.
Donna ~ so glad to meet a fellow Mainer! It's hard to be so far away, but I admit that I love Virginia in the fall and so am excited for what the next few months hold in store.
glp ~ lobster in Ohio? Seriously?
R to P ~ I told my husband that this photograph reminded me of his mother. . . no, not the white beard. . . but the pride she takes in nurturing her beans from little sprouts in the spring, to fall's bounty. Doesn't anyone take photos with their beans any more?
Inkslinger ~ I think there is a story there :).
Janet --
Sorry about the homesickness. Love the blue tint.
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