Calgary, Canada, 1926.

Volendam, Holland, 1929.

Oppheim, Norway, 1910.

Bilbao, Spain, 1917.

Roscoff, Brittany, 1920.

Reims, France, 1917.

Dunkirk, France, 1917.

Ross, Ireland, 1913.

St Ives, Cornwall, England, 1913.

Ancient Industries will be Abroad for a

fortnight. Postcards will be dispatched daily.

All photographs by Albert Kahn.

Extinct in Europe: The VW Camper

(1950-1979), available only in Brazil.

Dad's grey socks available everywhere.

Via beyond, deux, and heather ross.

Living: Swiss Alps and red gingham.

Cooking apron available at Ancient Industries.

Photograph of Ava Nancy by Kendra Wilson.

Living: The Shrimp. 

Ancient Industries poster girl for autumn.

Photograph by Terence Donovan.

Living: Pet graves. A quirk of the Egyptians, 

the practice was revived by the Victorians. 

Photograph by Kendra Wilson.

Remembered: Irving Penn's portable studio,

easily assembled in Paris, London and New York

for photographing the small trades in 1950.

Extinct: Pure elegance. 

Irving Penn 1917-2009.

Living: A mystery jug. Dated 1780 yet

the style is more akin to Osbert Lancaster.

Displayed at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

Killed off by dye: The carbro print. Created in 1868,

this carbon/bromide process used pigment, which made

the colour as stable as that of the frescoes of Pompeii.

Photographs by Nickolas Muray/George Eastman House.

Living: The Nerfertiti bust at the

Neues Museum. Made in Egypt c. 1330 BC.

Or, very possibly, Germany, 1912.

Living: 'I Know Where I'm Going was given its

name by Frankie, who was travelling with me on the

Number 9 bus to Piccadilly Circus. I told her Emeric's

story between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park.

"You ought to call it I Know Where I'm Going,"

she said, standing up to get off at Piccadilly.

"Why?"

"Because of the song," and standing there in the

swaying bus she sang it:

I know where I'm going

And I know who goes with me

I know whom I love

But the dear knows whom I'll marry.

We were opposite Fortnum and Mason.

I said, fascinated:

"Is there any more of it?"

She nodded.'

--From A Life in Movies by Michael Powell.

Living: Menorca. A Mediterranean neolithic 

civilization invaded by Romans, Vandals, Moors, 

Turks, British and French before becoming Spanish. 

Invaded again by the British in more recent years.

Timeless: Emmanuel Sougez, 1889-1972.

A modernist French photographer who captured

the beauty in traditional household objects.