Identifier: americanannualof1911newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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COMMON THINGS By J. A. ANDERSON. F, in portraiture and landscape, the amateur has,for the time, ceased to find satisfactory subjectsfor his lens, he may discover them in quite un-expected places. In almost every home the gar-ret, the cellar, the deep closet in which the ^oldthings are stored, may yield much that is worthy to be pre-served in picture form. There are few houses that have not some interesting piecesof old china or glass, possessing style or ornamentation whichcannot fail to be of interest. Or, there may be candlesticks,or lamps, illustrating the light of other days; mantel orna-ments of ancient style; that clock that ticked for grandfather;the quaint chair in which grandmother sat with her knitting;the wheel from which her deft fingers drew the dainty thread; 56
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the every-day cooking utensils which she used; the straw bas-kets in which she set her bread to rise; the old wooden bowlin which she mixed it; the stone jars and jugs in which shestored the apple butter and other home-made supplies; andcountless other homely things that bring to mind reminiscencesof the early days. There is the snuff-box from which the courtly gentlemanof the olden time took his pinch, and the *patch-box whichsupplied added decoration to the powdered cheek of his ladylove; or the old-fashioned specs in sliding bows of silver; ^^n^^^^^^^^^^^^^B^. 1 ***^- ■■ iM^^^^B ( BREAD BASKET. j. a. Anderson. and the ancestral hat, or bonnet, nowadays only brought tolight in burlesque imitations of the old-time dress. A picture may well be made of the foot stove, which, withits cup of hickory coals, served my lady on the wintry ride tomeeting, as well as in the pew, where her lord and mastershivered in the unheated sanctuary; and many can still showthe warming pan, in which al

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