WE RING THE BELLS OF LOVE

Felix Vallotton , 1911

via Monster Brains

Ruth Pettway Mosely “Carpenter’s Wheel” with “Star” centers—twelve-block variation 1968

Agnes Bergström, 1920, Sweden.

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photo by Carl Van Vechten

Two Nudes (Lovers), 1913, Oskar Kokoschka

Erich Buchwald- Zinnwald

Sally Bennett Jones

86 x 77 inches

Kahn & Selesnick- Maypole

(Petworth House)

Medium: oil,canvas

In the last decades of the 19th Century, white Southern society began to pass laws to reverse the gains African Americans made during Reconstruction. By 1900, the Age of Jim Crow (legal segregation) was in full swing. Yet as these images taken by Tallahassee photographer Alvan S. Harper reveal, many African Americans were able to prosper despite the social and legal restrictions they faced.

Chinese 78rpm record sleeves, 1930s-40s

Baroque Columns