#diary in america

[marryat92]

Captain Marryat on what has gone wrong with the city of Detroit: THE FRENCH.

The French never have succeeded as colonists, and their want of success can only be ascribed to an amiable want of energy. When located at any spot, if a Frenchman has enough, he seeks no more; and, instead of working as the Englishman or the American does, he will pass his time away, and spend his little surplus in social amusements. The town of Detroit was founded as early as the city of Philadelphia, but, favourably as it is situated, it never until lately rose to any thing more than, properly speaking, a large village. There is not a paved street in it, or even a foot-path for a pedestrian. In winter, in rainy weather, you are up to your knees in mud; in summer, invisible from dust: indeed, until lately, there was not a practicable road for thirty miles round Detroit.

— Frederick Marryat, A Diary In America (1839)

He goes on to add that (anglo) American industry is now transforming the city. This 1837 print of the Detroit waterfront is from the same time period as Marryat's visit.

William James Bennett after Frederick K. Grain, City of Detroit, Michigan: Taken from the Canada Shore near the Ferry, published 1837 (National Gallery of Art).

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #detroit #1830s #1839 #diary in america #us history #travelogue #michigan #great lakes #colonialism #1837

[clove-pinks]

Fall and winter fashions for 1837 & 8 by Scott & Perkins, 164 Broadway, N.Y. (Library of Congress)

The year of the financial Panic of 1837: and also when Captain Frederick Marryat visited the United States, landing in New York City.

There certainly is a very remarkable energy in the American disposition; if they fall, they bound up again. Somebody has observed that the New York merchants are of that elastic nature, that, when fit for nothing else, they might be converted into coach springs, and such really appears to be their character.

— Frederick Marryat, Diary in America

#Eighteen-Thirties Thursday #1830s #1837 #1838 #fashion #romantic era #fashion plate #frederick marryat #diary in america #the panic of 1837 #i wish mister checks and plaid had a higher quality picture #historical men's fashion

[creekbed-burial]

Do You Ever Really Leave Your Hometown?

#mine #my photography #illinois #trying to romanticize my hometown because if i dont no one will #also posting this as ive finally left my hometown and moved in with my bf is very bittersweet #also also posting this while knowing how corrupt my hometown and the one i went to school in is makes this even harder tbh #regional gothic #american gothic #americana #midwest #midwest aesthetic #midwest gothic #midwestern gothic #small town gothic #midwest america #suburbiacore #suburbcore #suburbia #suburban gothic #gothic americana #small town america #35mm film #film photography #35mm photography #35mm diary #analog photography #photography

[c0unterclockwise]

At times I wish to reach my fingers into my nape and pull out that part of my consciousness separated from me. Just to have a friend. I wonder if that is what mothers think before they pull us from the ground.

#appalachain gothic #southern gothic #writing #short poem #short story #writeblr #americana #rural #rural gothic #rural america #small town america #midwest gothic #american gothic #regional gothic #c0unterclockwise #blogging #diary

[dragons-and-dwarves-are-nice]

TikTok decided to show me an edit of an actor I had a crush on 10 years ago and I have now respiralled into the gaping chasm that is my love for Devon Bostick AKA Mr I’m in a band and wear eyeliner Rodrick Heffley himself.

I’ve never mentioned him (because I forgot) during the entire time I’ve had TikTok yet it somewhat broke into my brain and decided to unlock some seriously far back memories

Like

8 year old me had TASTE

And also thought she could pull an 18 year old but we’re not gonna focus on that

I’m once again simping for this gorgeous eyeliner wearing man TikTok how could you

#8 year old me dreamed of moving to America for some emo guy #a fit emo guy tho #a fine man indeed #istg im gonna scream #rodrick heffley #doawk rodrick #diary of a wimpy kid #rodrick rules #rodrick heffley x reader #devon bostick

[incorrectquotesmcu]

Tony: I wanted to apologize.

Steve: Good.

Tony: Let me finish. I wanted to, but then I realized, I’m not sorry.

#source: vampire diaries #tony stark #tony stark incorrect quotes #iron man #steve rogers #steve rogers incorrect quotes #captain america #marvel incorrect quotes #marvel #avengers #avengers incorrect quotes

[powerlineprincess]

Is that the time? I must be leaving. 2023 K.E.A Lux Hill. 35mm film.

#35mm black and white #black and white film #35mm diary #35mmdiary #35mm film #film photographers #photographers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #southern gothic #regional gothic #film photography #photography #gothic #rural america #country #countrycore #american gothic #americana aesthetic #appalachian gothic #appalachia #trailer park #abandoned trailer #abandoned aesthetic #north carolina #swampcore #swampgoth #trailer park queen #classic cars #vintage cars #girls who shoot film

[best-fictional-band-poll]

The top FOUR from this poll will go through! Good Luck!

#preliminary round #cowboy bebop #monk #almost famous #coming to america #dork diaries #the muppets #homestar runner #splatoon #king of the hill

[pengblackgirlorjustlexi]

America, for real, what is jelly?

There seems to be a difference between Jam and Jelly for you and what is up with that.

In South Africa we only have jam, and it is a sweet product eaten only in sweet circumstances. We do not have grape jam on breakfast sandwiches.

And my understanding is that our jam is your jelly, so what the fuck is up with that, is Lou just weird or is putting jam/jelly on things it generally shouldn't be on, a thing?

Also, jam on a burger???

#lexi's diary #dimension 20 #d20 #d20 fantasy high #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #d20 fhjy #america what's up

[pamietniko]

Travel Diary: My journey to The South

a storms coming

Custer State Park, South Dakota

#my journey to the south #south dakota #custer state park #bison #american bison #chevrolet #storm chasing #film photography #35mm #analogue #travel diary #rural america #midwest gothic #american gothic #small town america #americana

[tygerland]

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

#gael garcia bernal #che guevara #2000s #wanderlust #travel #film #activism #south america #movies #road trip #the motorcycle diaries #adventure #politics #inspiration #explore #motorcycle #history #che #culture #walter salles #the road is life #📚

[marryat92]

By the steamboats, rail-roads, and the wonderful facilities of water-carriage, a journey of five hundred miles is as little considered in America, as would be here a journey from London to Brighton. “Go ahead” is the real motto of the country; and every man does push on, to gain in advance of his neighbour.

— Frederick Marryat, Diary in America

'Philadelphia Citizen's Line of Steam Boats to New York and Baltimore': 1831 lithograph by William L. Breton.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #age of steam #1830s #diary in america #travelogue #steamboats #travel #transportation

[clove-pinks]

French-speaking Quebec society, at the time [of the War of 1812], was conservative and insular, far removed from the republican ideals of the French and American revolutions; in turn, British administrators deliberately encouraged traditional institutions like the Catholic Church and preserved the property rights of the landed gentry elite that dominated social and economic relations in Lower Canada.

— "Canada and the War of 1812," by Chris Madsen, in Broke of the Shannon and the War of 1812 ed. Tim Voelcker.

This is such an interesting passage, even though I am very aware that francophone Lower Canada =/= France... unlike many USAmericans of the time, who thought the Quebecois would welcome us because France and the young USA are buddies, and we would "liberate" them from the British; turns out no one living in peace has wanted an invading army to "liberate" them, ever. :(

But highlighting how Lower Canadian society has retained this attitude of the ancien régime, even Marryat saw that in 1837: "the higher classes who hold the seigneuries are satisfied with their seignorial rights and the means of exaction which they afford to them. The privileges of these seigneurs, or lords of the manor, in Lower Canada, are very extensive, and a bar to all improvement or advance," Diary in America.

And how cynical of the British administrators to encourage the Catholic Church, hmmm.

#war of 1812 #canadian history #lower canada #diary in america #me exhausted and brain dead #head empty just war of 1812 (and captain marryat)

[creekbed-burial]

Dreaming About The People Lost In My Memories

Local festival shot on my Pentax PC35 AF-M with Portra 400 film♡

#midwest #mine #film photography #midwest aesthetic #midwest america #my photgraphy #vintage #kodak portra 400 #35mm color photography #35mm camera #35mm photography #35mm diary #filmisnotdead #analog photography #nostalgiacore #nostalgia #dreamcore #american gothic #midwest gothic #regional gothic #americana #small town usa #suburbiacore #dirtcore #midwestern gothic #photography #midwest core #35mm film #carnival aesthetic #illinois

[c0unterclockwise]

I don't know who I'm praying to, or if I'm praying. I saw two childhood friends today. God is to me the underside of a hen's wing, my room at 2 in the morning, sitting on the pavement warm with a cigarette

#appalachain gothic #southern gothic #art #girlblogging #writeblr #c0unterclockwise #writers and poets #writing #blogging #short poem #short story #small town #small town gothic #small town aesthetic #small town america #coquette #girlblog #diary #digital diary

[unhingedcxnt]

#4norexla #@na vent #@nor3×14 #a4a diary #ana0rex1a #coquette #lana #pro for me not for thee #thinspø #⭐️ve #country #america #sadgirl #girlblogging #girl boss gaslight gatekeep #tumblr girls #live laugh girlblog