Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype sketches of young women but good for whatever little

but good for whatever little odds and ends now

among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era

with all sorts of drama embedded those

which were used to comb flax in preparation of spinning it into thread

including for use drying and stretching your gloves still

Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype sketches of young women but good for whatever littleThe lighthouse pictured here is Cape Neddick Lighthouse (aka "Nubble Lighthouse") in Cape Neddick, Maine, completed about 1880. (Lots about that history here. ) There are plenty of photos of it out there, historic and contemporary, but none I've found that portrays a sense of this grassy expanse from which one might look up at it. And for me it's all about that perspective, with only the heads and shoulders of this seated pair visible, their bodies