Some much-needed context is provided by acollectionof stunning black-and-white photographs from the late 19th century, which capture traditional costumes and hunting apparel.
"Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs" (Soft Skull Press) isacollectionof autobiographical vignettes illustrated by the author's own black-and-white photographs, which, like his music, evoke a vanishing America.
And yet acollectionof 56 photographs from Royal Holloway's archive shows that is exactly what some of the women that went to the university between 1896 and 1898 put on their floor or pinned to their walls.
He looked at acollectionof settlers' photographs taken in the late 1800s by Solomon Butcher, whose work is by far the most important documentary tool for sod-house researchers.