Tuesday 20 May 2014

Sepia Saturday 229 : 24 May 2014


Our theme image for Sepia Saturday 229 - post your posts on or around Saturday 24 May 2014 - comes from the Flickr Commons collection of the State Archives of North Carolina and shows a dorm room at a typical North American College in 1917. It is a print from a glass plate negative and it would appear to have suffered from the ravages of time. There are a host of possible themes you might like to follow ranging from the girls in their room to the pennants and banners on the wall or even that somewhat rudimentary plumbing next to the window. I must confess to being a little taken with the wallpaper - I am sure I used to have some like that in my bedroom when I was young. Whatever you decide to go with, just post your post, link it to the list below and fly the Sepia Saturday pennant on your blog. But before that, take a look at what exciting things lie just around the sepia corner.

230 : Women with long hair and .... women with long hair

231 : By popular demand .... it's do what you want week

Such things are for the future. Now it is time to go to your rooms and see what you can come up with for Sepia Saturday 229. Good luck.




18 comments:

Barbara Rogers said...

Ha ha, me first! The pics for my post this week are 1953 or so, and tie in with a previous post about "dancing-in" rock and roll.

21 Wits said...

Hello Alan, hoping all is well. Things are a bit busy on my end, so I'm posting early for me! I feel horrible about missing time here!

21 Wits said...

Wow, I am excited, to be second on the list this week!

La Nightingail said...

Dorms, apartments, suites, huts, it's all here.

Postcardy said...

The girls in the prompt look too young for college, and the large bows and baby dolls are not typical for college students.

Postcardy said...

I started with pennants and ended with music.

ScotSue said...

Dolls are my theme for this week.

Bob Scotney said...

Army connotations for me.

Wendy said...

My grandaunt's college dorm

Mike Brubaker said...

Just Normal College Girls from me this weekend, and as usual they are musical too.

Kristin said...

June 1980 - Two sisters and our daughters sitting on a bed. And a snapshot report on what was happening to us.

Little Nell said...

College girls aplenty, some musical, some with a penchant for Robert Redford!

DougVernX said...

I've got a perfect match for kids on a bed!

Jackie van Bergen said...

There were three in the bed and the little one said…

Jofeath said...

My mother's college days, plus a couple of bed photos from me.

anyjazz said...

I can't believe how popular those big bows were at one time.

Anonymous said...

So many great entries. It's kind of a pain for a non-Blogspot blogger to sign in on those accounts. So I am enjoying what I see, but don't have the patience to sign in on Google, (a company I pretty much abhor).

Boobook said...

My husband's grandmother was a school boarder.