logcabin

It seems the cabin is actually in Oakland California: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Miller en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Miller_cabin.jpg

Exile Bibliophile - they're two different structures. The one show here is now in D.C.'s Rock Creek Park: www.washingtonhistory.com/ScenesPast/images/SP_0607.pdf When this photo was taken, it was located on Washington's Meridian Hill, in the area now occupied by Meridian Hill Park. The cabin was moved by the Park Service in 1913.

It's now near the old Milkhouse Ford in Rock Creek Park.

On pages 385-386 of his book of memoirs, "Roadside Meetings" (1930) Hamlin Garland recalls a week he spent in Chicago in 1898, with the visiting Joaquin Miller: He [Miller] told us of his life in Washington City and of the log cabin he had built out near Rock Creek. "I made that my home for four years, but I was away much of the time. I didn't like it there. Congressmen and their silly wives wore me out. They all came to Washington as the great men in little towns, and their women, raw, silly, curious, had nothing better to do than to seek out Joaquin Miller, 'the man who lived in a tree.' They made life miserable for me and I fled."

Wystan: Love this kind of anecdotal tidbit - one that shows up in an obscure source that you'd never think to look in (or find with a keyword or subject search in a library catalog) if you were researching the subject! Interesting that he uses "the man who lived in a tree" - I wonder if this wasn't a misremembering of Miller's rant by Garland, since Miller's cabin was not far from "Airy Castle", the tree house of Allen B. Hayward, when he lived on Meridian Hill: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1907-02-17/ed-... Hayward brought a lot of curiosity-seekers to what was then otherwise a comparatively quiet part of the District.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage Quilts, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Wonderful shot, I am a native New Mexican and this is great to see. I can relate to how still one had to stand to get a shot back then, while looking into our bright sunshine with no shades.

After her work on the farm was done, she then had to do her chores in the house and get the children ready for bed.Quilts like these were usually made in the few remaining hours before bedtime and on a sunday(day of rest?). So this probably took a couple of years to complete.(speaking as a quiltmaker who also has to fit sewing into a busy day).If she had a machine, it may have taken less,but it's quite an accomplishment -and she's obviously very proud of it.

Typically Swiss Chalets, it must be either in Wallis or in Graubünden. The sledge lets me think it might be in the region of Davos because these are made of wood, are still used nowadays and are called "Davoser".

I think you're on the right track with Davos, Tambako. Probably all five of the snow scenes (the three of log houses, the one of the church, and the one view through the trees) are around Davos. mp.ch identified (correctly, I think) Davos Frauenkirch, and the view through the trees has exactly the same mountain in the background that appears in the church photo. Also, all five prints have close or adjacent print numbers (1016, 1021, 1022, 1023, and 1024.)