Tag Archives: 1910

The Hotel Roanoke.

Originally built in 1882.  I thought it would be fun to include a 1910 photo beneath the shot I took tonight.

The hotel is … owned and operated by Virginia Tech?  I did not know that.



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“A Happy Easter To You.” Circa 1910

Happy Easter, all!

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“Portrait of Violette Heymann,” Odilon Redon, 1910

Pastel.

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“The Breeze,” Anne Brigman, 1910

Photograph.

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Christmas card, circa 1910

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“Departure for the Sabbath,” Albert Joseph Penot, 1910

Postcard.

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“Give me my passage home …”

Give me my passage home, let me see that harbour once again, just as it was before I learned the bad words.  Patriarchs wiser than Abraham mended their nets on the modest wharf; white and wonderful things undressed on the sand dunes; sunset glittered on the plate-glass windows of the Marine Biological Station; far off on the extreme horizon, a whale spouted.  Look, Uncle, look.  They have broken my glasses and I have lost my silver whistle.  Pick me up, Uncle; let little Johnny ride away on your massive shoulders to recover his green kingdom, where the steam rollers are as friendly as the farm dogs …

— excerpt from W. H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror

 

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“Lighthouse near Westkapelle,” Piet Mondrian, 1910

Independence – Jiří z Poděbrad: study for a pendentive of the Lord Mayor’s Hall,” Alfons Mucha, circa 1910

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Self portrait by William McGregor Paxton, circa 1910

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“The New Necklace,” William McGregor Paxton, 1910

Oil on canvas.

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