Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Vintage National Geographic

National Geographic's Photo of the Day feature has for the past month been running old pictures from the magazine, some of which are delightful. Above, fishing boats in Macau, 1931.

 Wood carvers in India, 1921.

Oak tree in Louisiana, 1930.
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pootrsox said...

Re third Nat Geo picture:

I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing



By Walt Whitman 1819–1892


I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not.

December 26, 2012 at 3:38 PM

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