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Lamb House

September 7, 2011

Lamb House

Lamb House was the home of Henry James from 1897, when he was 55, until his death in 1916. Below, the residence as it appeared in the late 1930s or early 1940s. To the left of the house, at the end of the high wall, is the garden room where in summer James did most of his writing. The garden room was destroyed by a bomb in August 1940.

Lamb House 1930s

Look here for more about Lamb House from Colm Toibin, whose portrait of Henry James, The Master, beautifully evokes James’s life at Lamb House. If you read The Master — and you should — you will want to know what Lamb House looks like.

Photos: Jim Linwood, doveson2008, both via Flickr.

Filed Under: Books, Writers Tagged With: Henry James

The Master

September 7, 2011

Henry James, age 63
Rye, England, 1906
Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966

Filed Under: Photography, Writers Tagged With: Henry James, portraits of writers

San Francisco, 1906

August 29, 2011

San Francisco after the quake

San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906 (via Shorpy).

Filed Under: Odds & Ends Tagged With: earthquake, history, San Francisco, Shorpy

Ted Williams, 1939

August 28, 2011

Photo by Arthur Griffin. (via)

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: baseball, Red Sox, Ted Williams

The origin of Roy Hobbs

August 28, 2011

Eddie Waitkus

Phillies first-baseman Eddie Waitkus, Clearwater, Florida, 3/9/53 (source). On June 19, 1949, Waitkus was shot in the chest by a deranged fan, Ruth Ann Steinhagen, in a Chicago hotel room. The incident inspired the similar episode in Bernard Malamud’s The Natural.

Filed Under: Books, Sports Tagged With: baseball, Bernard Malamud, The Natural

Ford XL-500

August 3, 2011

1953 Ford XL 500 concept car

1953 Ford XL-500 concept car (via). Cool.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: cars

Hemingway, 1916

July 21, 2011

Ernest Hemingway, age 17, fishing at Walloon Lake, Michigan (1916). Below, another photo of Hemingway apparently from the same trip. Today is Hemingway’s 112th birthday. (Sources: Wikimedia Commons, JFK Library.)

Hemingway 1916

Filed Under: Writers Tagged With: Hemingway

Bill Russell, 1961

July 13, 2011

Via

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: basketball, Bill Russell, Celtics, portraits

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