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Safari
Photographs by Martin Johnson from his Safari: A Saga of the African Blue (1928)
Above and below, George Eastman of Kodak camera fame.
Pixiluv
Loving the postcards from Pixiluv, which I get from New Zealand via Amazon. Above, one from the Herbert Railton collection, and below, a scene by Montague Dawson, and an uncredited cover from Cosmopolitan. They offer an amazing array of images, on excellent quality stock, delivered quickly and perfectly packaged.
Breakfast
From Drums (1925) by James Boyd, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. “Bohea tea” (pronounced “Boo-hee”), was a tea imported during colonial times. The blend originated in China with trade to the British and Dutch East India Companies, and consisted of broken orange pekoe, pekoe, and souchong leaves dumped in a pile and then sifted, typically the scrap tea of lower quality leaves, but considered high quality by the colonists.
One More
Detail of frontispiece illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith for A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Aeropostale
Illustrations by Georges Hamel for “La Poste Francaise par la Voie des Airs” in the “L’aeronautique” issue of L’Illustration, November 14, 1936.
Why Brewers Have Cats
Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith for A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
