Autumn nostalgia for past Papergreat autumn posts

I was searching for a past Papergreat post the other day — there are nearly 4,000 of them! — and I came across some older posts that I had half-forgotten about and am extremely fond of. Autumn is my favorite time of the year and there have been many posts on that theme over the past 16 years.

So I'm resharing a few of my favorites here today, autumn evergreens that deserve to be dusted off and pulled down from Papergreat's attic. 

"Autumn Woods"

A 2013 post featured this Phostint postcard of a work by George Inness (1825–1894), an American landscape painter who was a major part of the tonalist movement. The oil-on-canvas work was created very late in Inness' life. I have a vague recollection that I ended up mailing this postcard to a Postcrossing pal in the Netherlands, but that might have been a different autumn postcard. It's all hazy.

American Autumn, 2014

These photos and the others in that 2014 post were taken many smartphone iterations ago in Pennsylvania and still look decent. I'm looking forward to seeing how photos turn out on my refurbished iPhone 13 after I figure out how to set it up.

Old, old German postcard

Or maybe this postcard that I featured in 2013 is the one I mailed to the Netherlands. Or maybe I mailed them both to the Netherlands! Or maybe they're still sitting in a shoebox upstairs. Who knows?

Russian wheat field

This one I'm almost positive is still in the shoebox. No one took me up on the offer. I guess that's OK, I'm kind of fond of it.

Raking leaves

This is an illustration from a 2011 post about a battered copy of the textbook Making Storybook Friends that was used in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, schools. That book is long gone from the household.

Preserving these in color

Now that Papergreat's archival bound editions are printed in color with large photos, I'll be able to have color versions of these illustrations from 1961's Our Homes and Our School preserved in print. That was one of the ulterior motives for everything featured in this post. (The bad news is that the new print-on-demand outfit provides books with large color photos but does not keep them in order within each individual post, which is going to make this post, especially, a clusterbumble in physical media form.)

Uncle Willie in the hay

Finally, this 2013 post features a cabinet card from way back in 1897 showing a toddler in a haystack. Just about all that we knew then, and know now, is that it's Uncle Willie.