Category Archives: Things Past

Christianity in Early America

Posted on August 8, 2011 by ubu507

from The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson Illustrated by Lili Rethi

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Woman

Posted on August 5, 2011 by ubu507

  Ur 2000BC-1750BC Old Babylonian The British Museum

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Woman

Posted on August 5, 2011 by ubu507

2613BC-2566BC (circa) 4th dynasty, Egypt The British Museum

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Portrait of Sallie Ward

Posted on August 2, 2011 by ubu507

George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813 -1894) 1860,oil on canvas. Sallie Ward was one of the most notorious southern belles of the nineteenth century. A resident of Louisville she was known from Boston to New Orleans, not only for being vivacious, … Continue reading →

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friends

Posted on August 2, 2011 by ubu507
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Always Pleased to See You – Postmarked May 7, 1910

Posted on July 27, 2011 by ubu507

The Kentucky Museum

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An Old Borders

Posted on July 25, 2011 by ubu507
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Tennis

Posted on July 22, 2011 by ubu507

An image from childhood: you’re on a tennis court, you’re raising a racket, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours plays on an eight-track somewhere and it’s the beginning of summer and your mother is still alive but you know there are darker times ahead. — … Continue reading →

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Ellis Girls

Posted on July 20, 2011 by ubu507
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Jane Hooton

Posted on July 16, 2011 by ubu507

wisdom, in the scorn of consequence

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