Apples and pears
A bit of mystery …
Category: English
English language related
Getting my exercise
While trying to see the forest and the trees …
Language mysteries
A small diversion before getting back to Gertrude Belle-Oudry.
Fish and carrots
What do fish and carrots have in common? Aside from potential ingredients for a tasty dish by my brother @jeffculy, I mean.
Lady photographers and woman balloonists
Background
To start off this new blog, I thought I’d bring together a few of my interests, including language, data visualization, and the social history of photography.
As part of our Early Women Artisan Photographers (EWAP) project (the podcast is Photographs, Pistols & Parasols), I periodically browse through eBay looking for photographs taken by women who ran their own photography businesses between 1840 (pretty much the beginning of commercial photography) to 1930 (the first big peak of women as photographers in the U.S.). The other day I came across a cabinet card (out of our price range, unfortunately) by a studio run by two women in Spokane, Washington. The card was unusual (for that studio) in that it was an advertising card for a balloonist who was going to be performing locally.