Common meal for Asia Minor refugees in Mytilene, Greece. http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/388321 At the beginning of the 20th century, the newly established Greece and the Turkish National Movement found themselves in conflict over territory in Asia Minor. The dispute...
Young girls having fun at a tea party. Their table and chairs are made from crates! http://www.antiquetoychest.com/2010/10/halloween-tea-party-girls-circa-1935/ Do you have an elderly relative who insists on washing, flattening, and saving aluminum foil for reuse? Or...
David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason, 1670. M. H. de Young Memorial Museum of the Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco. http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/341/sites/Childhood/Daily%20Life.htm Most people in colonial America were farmers, tilling land that had...
People tend to think of the past in modern terms and effortlessly make the obvious correlations. Although such a practice isn’t forbidden, it lacks the underlying information needed in order to reconstruct older cultures and societies. According to theoretics,...
The Tyche of Constantinople: a woman wearing a turreted crown with a Greek inscription mentioning her as “the flourishing beauty,” i.e. Constantinople.¬†600 until 550 CE. Louve Museum....
