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shutterandsentence · 5 months

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Photo: Jamestown, Virginia

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pointandshooter · 5 months

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Waterford, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

#autumn #waterford virginia #photographers on tumblr #pumpkins #colonial architecture

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arthistoryanimalia · 12 days

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#ThreeForThursday:

Tea Service in the Shape of Quails

Gujarat (formerly Baroda), India, 1920-30

Silver, gilded silver, ivory

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts display

“The British were not India's only patrons of elegant silver.

Native princes - always engaged in dynamic cultural interchanges with their British overlords - also commissioned silver of the highest quality. Such patronage was nowhere more prominent than in western India, where the rulers of the state of Kutch were champions of their silversmiths. These leaders ensured their region's silver became the best known of India's styles through sponsorship at international exhibitions, beginning with London's Great Exhibition of 1851. This stylishly whimsical tea service in the shape of richly feathered quails was produced by Oomersee Mawjee Jr., son of Kutch's most renowned master silversmith, after he shifted to the employ of another western Indian ruler, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda.”

#animals in art #20th century art #museum visit #birds in art #bird #birds #quail #Indian art #South Asian art #Asian art #colonial art #silver #tea service #metalwork #1920s #Virginia Museum of Fine Arts #Three for Thursday #trio

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libraryofva · 28 days

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Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

Colonial Heights Band Boosters Club presents BYE BYE BIRDIE, a Musical Comedy. Colonial Heights High School Auditorium, April 4,5,6, 1963. George Harold Edwards Scrapbook

#vintage #va #virginia #ephemera #1960s #high school #theatre #bye bye birdie #Colonial Heights

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here-a-lee-there-a-lee · 2 months

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Justice for Abigail Adams in 1776!!!

She is by far one of the most underrated people I’ve ever seen in the musical/movie 🤕🤕

#colonial america #founding fathers #1776 #1776 1972 film #1776 musical #abigail adams #john adams #virginia vestoff #barbara lang #I LOVE HER SO MUCH #me trying to bounce back after not posting for almost a month😵#she was literally John Adams’ backbone

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juls-lens · 12 days

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baby sheep ! 🐑

📍colonial williamsburg, virginia

**this work is my original photography - please do not reupload without credit or claim as your own**

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vox-anglosphere · 8 months

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Established in 1585, the entire colony of Roanoke vanished by 1590. The only clue was a strange inscription, 'Croatoan', carved on a tree.

#Roanoke #Virginia #US history #vanished colony #New World #historical mystery #Elizabethan era #August 1590 #On this day

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thebeautifulbook · 8 months

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TO HAVE AND TO HOLD by Mary Johnson (Boston/New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1900). Illustrations by Howard Pyle, E.B. Thompson, A.W. Betts, and Emien McConnell.

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #books #book cover #vintage books #mary johnson #howard pyle #virginia #colonial virginia #book design

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meerawrites · 3 months

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Holidays 2023 @ Colonial Williamsburg.

#meera.txt #personal #christmas #winter #holidays 2023 #colonial williamsburg #18th century history #18th century #american revolution #travel #photography #my photos #virginia #history #holidays cw

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tricornonthecob · 5 months

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I know I know I gotta do s2 of LK but I wanted to do this instead

Felicity Steals An Entire Fucking Horse: The Movie (2005)

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Warner Brothers hittin' that renown TV-Movie quality with Microsoft Word 2003 typefaces

I don't think she stole this horse in particular, but they never explain its backstory, so I'd like to believe all the Merriman horses are lifted.

this is such a horsegirl movie, she says, as a horsegirl.

stfu Nan.

They sit astride local small business owners

sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pretty sure Rose is enslaved, are we ever gonna address the slavery in the room in this movie, orrrrrrrrr.......

The series of expressions this actress makes here are phenomenal also guess we're not gonna address the slavery in the room.

I meannnn.... are you the one doing all the work here, Mrs. Merriman??? Or just taking the credit.

The Notable Housewives of The Greater Hampton Roads Area

Nan, you fucking narc, don't you know the first rule of The Notable Housewives of The Greater Hampton Roads Area?? Snitches are bitches!

Grandpa Enslaver comin' in hot with the "IDGAF, Nan"

Mrs. Merriman is not impressed with her firstborn.

lookit all those living history actors just chatterin' away, I wonder if they got paid extra that day.

Ed Merriman, Walgreens manager.

What can you get at Ed's, you say? Well, come on down! We got:

fabric lifted straight from the Jo-Ann's off rte 321,

Various science experiments,

Unsorted wooden tools, ominously unlabeled tins, bike chain with a bazillion locks we can't cut off, definitely NOT acrylic vases, a concerning age gap for fanfic writers to overcome in some way, brushies, and HELLA sponges from the Jo-Anns off rte 321,

Whiskey of course,

two (2) hatchets in the Olde Timey candy aisle, aforementioned Olde Timey candy, someone's grandma's copper kettle, a concerning lack of stupid heartthrob curtain bangs, wooden spoons, ramekins that probably definitely did not come from Target, and tin jugs (more whiskey??,)

Tea,

And, of course, This Bitch.

Rude (but statistically probable)

This is some Jane Austen dialogue.

Felicity: "...Yes. Good, you can pay attention to things."

#tricorn on the cob watches Felicity and makes inane commentary #tricorn watches #The Notable Housewives of The Greater Hampton Roads Area #Felicity #Felicity Merriman #american girl dolls #amrev #american revolution #Mrs. Merriman is Unimpressed #Nan are you a cop you gotta say if you're a cop #Williamsburg #Virginia #colonial williamsburg #Felicity: An American Girl Adventure #Felicity Steals An Entire Fucking Horse

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ms-march · 1 year

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The colony at Jamestown is my favorite historical multilevel marketing scheme

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tellatrail · 1 year

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

#to the lighthouse #virginia woolf #slavery #march #literature #colonialism #english #british empire

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pointandshooter · 4 months

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Waterford, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

#photographers on tumblr #waterford #colonial architecture #old house #virginia

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shutterandsentence · 10 months

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“[Independence Day] will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival… It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade with shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this continent to the other from this Time forward forever more,”

--John Adams (about the vote to declare Independence on July 2, 1776)

Photo: Williamsburg, Virginia

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libraryofva · 29 days

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Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

Easter. George Harold Edwards Scrapbook

#vintage #virginia #va #Colonial Heights #easter #easter bunny #family photos

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here-a-lee-there-a-lee · 1 year

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richard henry lee on his way to get the resolution on independency

#richard henry lee #1776 #founding fathers #colonial america #1776 1972 #1776 the musical #richard lee #lees of old virginia #shitpost

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