Sarah B. Guest Perry

All dressed up with more tulle petticoats than Vivien Leigh wore in “Gone with the Wind.” Imagery from Southern California’s Coronet Debutante Ball. Various years. From TESSA by way of Calisphere. Coronet Ball debutantes – Los Angeles: Glamour and glory are all theirs for this one night at least, as the excited Coronet Ball debutantes, in white dresses and 18-button gloves, line up bef…

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Feathery fans dyed fun colors. At least as far as I know ostriches aren’t orange. From Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Three large ostrich feather fans in green, pink and white; the pink and green having synthetic sticks and guards while the white has mother-of-pearl. Art Deco, ca. 1920-1925. Makers not known. Imag…

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An envisioning. 1995 and summer inching in as the lilacs inch out in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Oh to be here.

An envisioning. 1995 and summer inching in as the lilacs inch out in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my new envisioning/short fiction piece

Imagery from “Psalms Of David Owen Jones,”an illuminated book of the Psalms by Owen Jones. Done to look medieval but from 1861. Owen Jones was one of the great creatives of the 19th century. An archit... Frontispiece. Taken from Psalms of David Owen Jones. Image 3. Published on August 18, 1861. British. Owen Jones, artist (1809-1874). Artwork in the public domain due to age. Title page. Taken from …

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Visions of Brazil just a little while ago. Plates from Johann Moritz Rugendas’ (Maurice Rugendas) 1835 work “Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil.” PRAYA Rodríguez, pres. de Río de Janeiro. Engelmann, Rue Louis-le-Grand Number 27, Paris, lithographer, after a drawing by Johann Moritz Rugendas (Maurice Rugendas). Plate 1, Image 20 of Johann Mor…

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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum photographed back in the olden time when it was called Fenway Court and Mrs. Gardner lived up stairs. Mostly images of her apartment up on the third floor it looks ... Boston Fenway Court courtyard with numerous potted palms. 1903 image. American. Thomas E. Marr, photographer. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via Mrs. Gardner…

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love the polka dots!

An envisioning. 2018 and spring with the crocuses popping right out of their beds at the cabin in northern Minnesota. Oh to be here.

An envisioning. 2018 and spring with the crocuses popping right out of their beds at the cabin in northern Minnesota. open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my new short fiction piece

Off to see the sights of London and take in the coronation, but of Queen Victoria, not King Charles III. Plates from “Peter Parley’s Visit to London during the Coronation of Queen Victoria,” published... Title page showing Queen Victoria with Dash, her pet spaniel. Page 9. English. Taken from Peter Parley’s Visit to London during the Coronation of Queen Victoria. Published by Charles Tilt, Fl…

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What’s for dinner? Wishing mine was more like the dining moments immortalized here in this 1938 “Larousse Gastronomique.” Written by maitre cuisinier Prosper Montagné, collaborating with a Doctor Alfr... Front cover, View 11 of maitre cuisinier Prosper Montagné’s 1228-page work Larousse Gastronomique, which was published in Paris in 1938 by Larousse Paris. Collections of the Bibliothèque nati…

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An envisioning. 2007 and high noon in February at the old house in Rhinebeck. Oh to be here.

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Mariette V on Instagram: "🔶 Model wrapped in soft teddy wool orange coat from Printemps, photo by Daiho Yoshida, glass orange earrings by Jeanne Do, hair styled by Thérèse Chardin, ELLE France October... 69 likes, 1 comments - vintagefashionmagazines on October 31, 2025: "🔶 Model wrapped in soft teddy wool orange coat from Printemps, photo by Daiho Yoshida, glass orange earrings by Jeanne Do, hair sty...

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Start your own water garden with or without fish swimming through it. Images from the 1933 catalogue “Tropical Aquariums and Water Gardens.” Published by Beldt’s Aquarium which was located in Saint Lo... SPECIAL ORNAMENTAL PLANT COLLECTION: Philodendron, Variegated Philodendron, Japanese Evergreen, Umbrella Palms. Complete as illustrated, all four plants only $1.25. Page 29 (lower image), Tropical …

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Scans of 1912 wallpaper samples from a sample catalogue put out by Franz Schlote Dresden. Collections of SLUB Dresden, The Saxon State and University Library Dresden. Front cover of a 1912 Franz Schlote Dresden wallpaper sample book. Collections and image SLUB Dresden. In the public domain due to age. Wallpaper sample. Image 5, taken from a 1912 Franz Schlote Dr…

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Día de los Muertos, a last post for Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art 2025.
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sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/30/v... my new blog post. I started yesterday but the Internet Archive server went down so finished today. This is the kangaroo.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Halloween 2025 . . . whistling on air as somewhere in the Arctic the last glacier splits .

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Halloween 2025 . . . open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my series post for today

Satan Watching the Sleep of Christ. (detail) ca.1874. Scots. Joseph Noel Paton, painter (1821-1901). Collection of the Kirkcaldy Galleries. via artuk.org.

An envisioning. 1965 and March with salt and pepper colored burnt bits flying out of the chimney at the house on the outskirts of Laramie. Oh to be here.

An envisioning. 1965 and March with salt and pepper colored burnt bits flying out of the chimney at the house on the outskirts of Laramie. open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my new short fiction piece

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 30th in the 2025 fall show . . . eww it's seven AM and moderately still dark looking outside though it appears no warlocks. wailing on air on the crack of a glacier as it calves as the figures in the chamber of horrors in the wax museum come to life .

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 30th in the 2025 fall show . . . eww it's seven AM and moderately still dark looking outside though it appears no warlocks. open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my fall series post for today

Depiction of a human eye, an illustration from the work Sententia. ca. 2019. Russian. Paper made and cut entirely by hand with the eye in watercolor, acrylic, and gold. Artem Ogurtsov, artist. via mymodernmet.com.

Simple Patchwork murrini spider. Glass art. 2015. American. Effetre glass. Wesley Fleming, sculptor. via wesleyfleming.com.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 29th in the 2025 fall show . . . meandering on air on the tip of a snowflake as a two year old sticks her tongue out to catch it as somewhere past the eastern sea in the middle of the great desert an explorer hears something whine .

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 29th in the 2025 fall show . . . open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my series post for today including this Steuben crystal pumpkin.

An envisioning. 2016 in mid-August and wilting under a full-fledged summer sun at the bungalow outside Chevremont Hills. The Piedmont and things looking up, down, and sideways.

An envisioning. 2016 in mid-August and wilting under a full-fledged summer sun at the bungalow outside Chevremont Hills. open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my new short fiction piece.

Ned Friedman, Arnold Arboretum on Instagram: "Acer pseudosieboldianum (Korean maple - also native to China and far East Russia) at the Arnold Arboretum. Proceed directly to the maple collection at the... 217 likes, 5 comments - nedfriedman on October 26, 2025: "Acer pseudosieboldianum (Korean maple - also native to China and far East Russia) at the Arnold Arboretum. Proceed directly to the maple colle...

www.instagram.com/nedfriedman/... Acer pseudosieboldianum (Korean maple - also native to China and far East Russia) at the Arnold Arboretum. 2025 image. Taken from the Instagram of @nedfriedman, director of the Arnold Arboretum. Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.

Imagery from the folio “Sacre, couronnement et entrée de Claude de France.” She was queen of France from 1515 to 1524 and duchess of Brittany in her own right so an important medieval lady. Collection... Miniature from the folio Sacre, couronnement et entrée de Claude de France. View 6, Folio 1v. Created in 1517. Maître des entrées parisiennes, illuminator. Formerly in the collections of the Collèg…

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Canes with interesting detailing. So much more luxurious looking than even the purple ones with bright red flowers over on Amazon. Black onyx and gold-plated silver cane, the black onyx handle being overlaid with silver and silver-gilt lines on an ebonized hardwood shaft with a metal ferrule. ca. 1915, Wiener Werkstätte/Jugend…

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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 27th in the 2025 fall show . . . smoldering on air as in the jeweler’s shop windows the diamonded up serpents come to life .

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 27th in the 2025 fall show . . . open.substack.com/pub/sarahbgu... my series post for today