Archive for November, 2011
Just Because
Posted in Postcards on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tea Outdoors
Posted in Art, Postcards, Tea on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tea with Geese and Pig
Posted in Art, Postcards, Tea on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Postcard with illustration by Lilian A. Govey
Tea with Bears
Posted in Art, Postcards, Tea on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Watch your lap. An early postcard by John Allen St. John, far better known as the illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books, from the V.O. Hammel Publishing Co. of Chicago. The subject is the Roosevelt bears, from the “Days of the Week Series.” The other cards were: Sunday/Promenade, Monday/Washing, Tuesday/Sewing, Wednesday/Matinee, Friday/Marketing and Saturday/Baking.
Tea on the Way
Posted in Art, Postcards, Tea on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Chinese junk carrying tea, postcard No.149 of the “Marine-Galerie” series, published circa 1920, by German maritime artist Christopher Rave (1881- 1933).
Tea in Leningrad
Posted in Art, Tea, War on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A teapot commemorating the siege of Leningrad, 1944, produced by the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, shown in Writing the Siege of Leningrad (2002).
The Siege of Leningrad
Posted in Environment, Libraries, Literature, War on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpts from Writing the Siege of Leningrad; Women’s Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (2002), collected and edited by Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina: “G. Popov dropped in on us today and played the piano. He called me into the room and started to play Ravel’s ‘Promenade in auto.’ At the most bravura place he says: [...]
Tea: The Universal Restorative
Posted in Dogs, Postcards, Tea on November 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Great Bell of Nara
Posted in Bells, Japan, Postcards on November 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Todai-ji is a Buddhist temple site in Nara, Japan, home to an amazing bell that I hope to see and hear some day: These images are from postcards, with the exception of the last, a stereopticon slide, which notes on the back, “No. 670 THE HANGING BELL OF NARA, JAPAN. Near the fine Buddhist temple [...]
Also for Thanksgiving
Posted in Advertising, Art, Whiskey on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The perfect accompaniment to a Thanksgiving venison dinner.
