Penny Richards' photos with the keyword: history

Thrifted Samsonite traincase, upcycled with gesso, acrylics, modpodge, paper collage, sharpies, and krylon. All images from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons.

Saw these two posters at our school open house--two Flickr Commons photographers were subjects of fourth-grade biography projects, Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams.

Thrifted maroon bag was upcycled with paint, collage, sharpies, modpodge, and krylon.

Thrifted maroon bag was upcycled with paint, collage, sharpies, modpodge, and krylon. Original image of the American all-female jazz band "The Ingenues" from the State Library of New South Wales (see below).

Upcycled from a plain black thriftshop backpack with gesso, acrylic paints, paper collage, sharpies, modpodge, and krylon. Image of Hedwig Reicher as Columbia, at the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington DC, is from the Flickr Commons uploads of the Library of Congress (See below for original.) SOLD 8/09.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, sharpies, ink, paper collage, modpodge, and krylon. Quote is from Grace Greenwood (1823-1904), American writer, first woman reporter on the payroll at the New York Times: "The women of the next age will be the stronger and the freer, aye, the happier, for the few brave spirits who now stand up fearlessly for unpopular truth against the world." SOLD.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, sharpies, ink, paper collage, modpodge, and krylon. Image is Grace Greenwood (1823-1904), American writer, first woman reporter on the payroll at the New York Times. Photo by Southworth & Hawes, from the Flickr Commons uploads of the George Eastman House (see below). SOLD.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, sharpies, ink, paper collage, modpodge, and krylon. Image is George Sand (1804-1876), French novelist. Photo by Nadar, from the Flickr Commons uploads of the George Eastman House (see below). DONATED 5/10.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, sharpies, ink, paper collage, modpodge, and krylon. Quote is George Sand (1804-1876), French novelist: "As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides."

Herschel, Newton, Kepler, on a monument in front of Griffith Observatory.

Upcycled from a plain black thriftshop backpack with gesso, acrylic paints, paper collage, sharpies, modpodge, and krylon. Image of Hedwig Reicher as Columbia, at the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington DC, is from the Flickr Commons uploads of the Library of Congress (See below for original.) SOLD 8/09.