Orchidelirium

 

Victorian flower madness but still exists today. People were killed in the search for rare orchids in foreign lands. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchidelirium

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/orchidelirium-obsession-orchids-lasted-centuries-180954060/

Header/footer is a cyanotype:

White House orchids

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer

[between 1889 and 1906]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012646234/

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012646239/