Vade Retro, Earth Girl
Discarded photos, mid-century book design, and anything else I decide to scan.
Ask box.
4
2012
Wedding, late 30s to mid-1940s. Most likely Chuckatuck, VA.
This is my great-great-aunt Matsie, born in 1917 - she was absolutely wonderful, and I love this picture of her.
22
2012
Snowy ladies-only Thanksgiving, Wyoming, 1940s
3
2012
From Galileo to Cosmic Rays, by Harvey Brace Lemon. University of Chicago Press, 1934 (this is the sixth pressing, from 1940). Drawings by Chichi Lasli
News update: I work in an auction house now, and regularly get to take home boxes of unsold books, like the one above!
15
2012
Like mother, like daughter (grumpy).
1940s.
30
2012
Christmas, 1939 (it must have been a warm one!)
Polly (my grandmother) is about 18 months old here.
22
2012
Teenager in the sun, early 1940s.
22
2012
Girls Scouts, 1940s.
22
2012
23
2012
Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse. By Helen Wells. 1947.
“It is every girl’s ambition at one time or another to wear the crisp uniform of a nurse. Certainly, girls everywhere love to read stories in which a nurse is the heroine. At least a million girls already know and admire Cherry Ames; have laughed over her pranks, and her gay adventures and wept over her problems.”
23
2011
My great-aunt’s super gay Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Wyoming, 1940s
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