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Le Lac des Mines d'Or, est un lac artificiel, situé en Haute-Savoie, sur la commune de Samoëns en France 1 390 m).
Les Mines d'Or au Col du Coux : C’est au XIXe siècle que le col de Coux a connu sa mini ruée. Vers 1850, des Suisses creusent une mine à quelques encablures du col. L’histoire ne dit pas s’ils ont fait fortune. Par la suite, dans les années 1890, ce sont quatre Stéphanois qui tentent de poursuivre l’exploitation, toujours, à la recherche d'un filon. La fortune n'était toutefois pas au rendez-vous, les difficultés d’exploitation dues au manque d’eau et surtout la mort accidentelle d’un des compagnons provoqua l’abandon définitif de la mine quelques années plus tard.
The Lac des Mines d'Or, is an artificial lake, located in Haute-Savoie, in the commune of Samoëns in France 1 390 m).
The Gold Mines at the Col du Coux: It was in the 19th century that the Col de Coux experienced its mini rush. Around 1850, some Swiss dug a mine a few hundred yards from the pass. History does not say whether they made a fortune. Subsequently, in the 1890s, four people from St. Etienne tried to continue mining, still looking for a vein. However, the fortune was not there, the difficulties of exploitation due to the lack of water and especially the accidental death of one of the companions caused the definitive abandonment of the mine a few years later.
Six blocks of downtown Skagway, Alaska are designated as a National Historic District. Within this zone, private, state, city, and federal interests have cooperated to preserve or restore the late 1890s atmosphere.
Skagway is one of the most fascinating towns in all of Alaska. Its rich history and ties to the gold rush
Skagway is a compact city in southeast Alaska, set along the popular cruise route the Inside Passage. It's home to gold-rush-era buildings, now preserved as part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad runs vintage locomotives past the famously steep Chilkoot trail and offers sweeping mountain views during its climb toward Canada. ― Google
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Six blocks of downtown Skagway, Alaska are designated as a National Historic District. Within this zone, private, state, city, and federal interests have cooperated to preserve or restore the late 1890s atmosphere.
Skagway is one of the most fascinating towns in all of Alaska. Its rich history and ties to the gold rush
Skagway is a compact city in southeast Alaska, set along the popular cruise route the Inside Passage. It's home to gold-rush-era buildings, now preserved as part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad runs vintage locomotives past the famously steep Chilkoot trail and offers sweeping mountain views during its climb toward Canada. ― Google
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Happy Clicks
~Christie
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A beautiful clear morning. As often happens, the rest of the coast was socked in & foggy -- but the Hearst family had figured out they had the sunny spot on this part of the coast, and moved in back in the 1890s, not long after George bought the Rancho Piedras Blancas. They're still here, well into the third and fourth generation by now.
WR Hearst Memorial State Beach
Six blocks of downtown Skagway, Alaska are designated as a National Historic District. Within this zone, private, state, city, and federal interests have cooperated to preserve or restore the late 1890s atmosphere.
Skagway is one of the most fascinating towns in all of Alaska. Its rich history and ties to the gold rush
Skagway is a compact city in southeast Alaska, set along the popular cruise route the Inside Passage. It's home to gold-rush-era buildings, now preserved as part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad runs vintage locomotives past the famously steep Chilkoot trail and offers sweeping mountain views during its climb toward Canada. ― Google
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Happy Clicks
~Christie
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Two bicycles parked up against a rustic heritage building.
Alaskan mountain window reflections
Six blocks of downtown Skagway, Alaska are designated as a National Historic District. Within this zone, private, state, city, and federal interests have cooperated to preserve or restore the late 1890s atmosphere.
Skagway is one of the most fascinating towns in all of Alaska. Its rich history and ties to the gold rush
Skagway is a compact city in southeast Alaska, set along the popular cruise route the Inside Passage. It's home to gold-rush-era buildings, now preserved as part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad runs vintage locomotives past the famously steep Chilkoot trail and offers sweeping mountain views during its climb toward Canada. ― Google
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Happy Clicks
~Christie
*Best experienced in full screen
New York in the 1890s. University professor Alexander loses his beloved lover, Emma, after being robbed. Aspiring to get Emma back, Alexander spends four years perfecting the time machine and trying to save Emma from danger retroactively. However, no matter how many times she goes back, she is caught in another accident and died, and she cannot prevent death. Why can't we change the past...? Looking for the answer in the future, Alexander took the time machine and set off for 2030・・・・・
The Time Machine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-VP-FyI9KU
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This beautiful property next to the little Liffey River is called, "Oura Oura". This is the palawa name for "Cockatoo", a bird species common in the area, both the sulphur crested and the black cockatoo.
Over the next few days I'll tell you more about this idyllic place, but you need to know that it is a very significant landmark in Tasmanian conservation history.
In 1973 a young medical practitioner from New South Wales bought it from the Crack family who had farmed this land since the 1890s. Bob Brown named it "Oura Oura":
"Oura Oura was destined to play a part in major political upheaval. The Tasmania that Brown had come to love was threatened. He led a campaign to save the Franklin River from development which changed the Tasmanian political landscape, being described as 'one of the defining moments in Australian political history' and one of the events that 'shaped' Australia. It also turned Bob Brown into an international figure.
Oura Oura was Brown's retreat from the public stage but also the early meeting place of the Wilderness Society. The house lit only by candle or lantern contributed to his minimalistic, monastic image and was emblematic of his 'brand', that is, 'wilderness', and the spiritual nature of its following. Brown's Liffey house, according to one biographer, looked 'a little like a church'."
heritage.tas.gov.au/news/oura-oura-permanently-registered
In this short interview, former Senator Bob Brown speaks about the significance of "Oura Oura" and the environmental movement. www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/...
Diana looked out of her window and noticed the grey, leaden skies above her London home. “Time for my scarf and brolly.” she thought. Winding a tan and cream coloured scarf about her throat, tucking it under the lapels of her coat, she affixed it with a dainty gold bar brooch with a delicate cameo of a woman’s face in profile in its centre, given to her on her eighteenth birthday by her parents. Touching it with her hand, Diana thought of her parents as she always did whenever she wore it. “Who says a winter wardrobe has to be dull and without flair?” she asked her reflection in the entrance hall mirror as she appraised her appearance. Tilting her hat to a jaunty angle, Diana picked up her brolly from the umbrella stand and prepared to face the winter day outside.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 27th of June is "jewellery on a scarf". I thought this delicately and expertly carved beautiful Italian cameo bar brooch from the 1890s perfectly matched one of my woven winter scarves. This cameo, set in an ornate eighteen carat gold setting decorated with flowers, is carved from shell and features a typically classical female profile. Many cameos feature mythological figures. In this case it is a just a pretty young lady with a chignon at the back of her neck. I think she is a beautiful work of art. I hope you like my choice of this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
A cameo is a material that is carved with a raised relief that often depicts a profile of a face or a mythical scene. Cameos are commonly made out of shell, coral, stone, lava, or glass. Cameo jewellery has varying quality factors including the intricacy of the carving to the quality of the setting.
Battle Ax was a popular chewing tobacco in the 1890s and early 1900s. It's possible that this sign dates to circa 1896-1897. A plug of Battle Ax sold for ten cents in the mid 1890s.
Heibel's opened in the late 1890s. The original wooden shop burned down around 1940. This building was constructed during WW II minus the glass windows. The glass windows were installed after the war was over and glass was no longer being rationed. Heibel's is still in business, operating as Heibel's Blacksmith & Welding.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By the 1890s sculptural representations of Native American and western themes have become extremely popular.While living in Chicago in the early 1890s,MacNeil had learned of a rite of passage that captured his imagination:before a boy at the threshold of manhood can become a warrior,he was required to shoot an arrow directly into the sun.If the chieftain judging the boy's prowess was so blinded by the sun's rays that he could not follow the flight of the arrow,it was said to have gone "out of sight"and the youth had passed the test.MacNeil portrayed the dramatic moment,following the arrows release,heightening both the visual impact of the composition and the sense of narrative suspense.
General store / Post office in Jones county. built in the 1890s, when the trains were still running through on a regular basis.
The paste in the centre of this button may look red, but if you turn it a little in the light it appears blue. The button is made from brass and dates back to the 1890s.
You can probably tell that I'm lacking inspiration at the moment because I've reverted to my vintage buttons. I'm missing flowers and can't wait for Spring to bring my garden back to life. :)
The origins of the building that became known as the mail carrier’s house are a matter of debate, but it is significant as the only 19th century log structure still standing in Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Its rustic style is more typical of construction of the area and time than are the buildings put up by the U.S. Army for Fort Yellowstone. It was probably built in the mid-1890s, and over the years it has provided quarters for mail carriers as well as concessions employees and National Park Service staff. This photo was taken in 2005 while the house was beeing stablized as part of a preservation process. The house is on the National Registry of Historic Places as part of the Fort Yellowstone Historic District. For a more complete history of the house and its preservation see: www.greateryellowstonescience.org/download_product/1058/0
Some of the information and text above from www.greateryellowstonescience.org
Year 1890s
the image is scan from original Glass Negative.
i own the several glasses plate of the family.
Dry plate
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Excerpt from www.niagarathisweek.com/news/mural-project-brings-city-s-...:
Directly across from Lock 6 at Wellington Street, the gathering (August 16, 2009) will include the unveiling of the 12th of the historical murals crafted by local artist Shawn Reimer on the back of industrial buildings along the Welland Canals Parkway.
Dale Robinson, chair of the Welland Canals Parkway Thorold Task Group, said the ambitious murals project nearing completion after nearly five years of work by volunteers will ensure a lasting legacy that will tell the city’s story for generations to come.
The concept for the murals first came when Robinson and her husband would walk along the parkway and run face-to-face into ugly graffiti on the backs of factories. After a meeting in January 2005 among project supporters, work began on the murals project to cover up those tags.
Murals already completed include ones with themes such as Thorold in the 1890s, the city’s first schools, Second World War veterans, the Protection Hose Company and the bombing of Lock 24.
Plans call for a final mural, likely to be completed by next spring, on the War of 1812, said Robinson.
She figures the murals will help people to feel they’re part of a unique community, at a time when many cities are becoming homogenous and the same retail store brands line cities’ streets.
“Every town starts to look like every other town,” said Robinson. “There’s no sense of community.
Source: Scan of an original postcard.
Set: MID01.
Date: Early photo on Edwardian postcard?
Postmark: Unused.
Repository: From the collection of Mr T. Midwinter.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Excerpt from www.niagarathisweek.com/news/mural-project-brings-city-s-...:
Directly across from Lock 6 at Wellington Street, the gathering (August 16, 2009) will include the unveiling of the 12th of the historical murals crafted by local artist Shawn Reimer on the back of industrial buildings along the Welland Canals Parkway.
Dale Robinson, chair of the Welland Canals Parkway Thorold Task Group, said the ambitious murals project nearing completion after nearly five years of work by volunteers will ensure a lasting legacy that will tell the city’s story for generations to come.
The concept for the murals first came when Robinson and her husband would walk along the parkway and run face-to-face into ugly graffiti on the backs of factories. After a meeting in January 2005 among project supporters, work began on the murals project to cover up those tags.
Murals already completed include ones with themes such as Thorold in the 1890s, the city’s first schools, Second World War veterans, the Protection Hose Company and the bombing of Lock 24.
Plans call for a final mural, likely to be completed by next spring, on the War of 1812, said Robinson.
She figures the murals will help people to feel they’re part of a unique community, at a time when many cities are becoming homogenous and the same retail store brands line cities’ streets.
“Every town starts to look like every other town,” said Robinson. “There’s no sense of community.
A ship on the Nile (1888 - 1898). My colorization of Pascal Sébah´s photo in the Rijksmuseum archive. To me this looks more like a yacht than a cargo vessel.
St Abbs is a small fishing village on the southeastern coast of Scotland, within the Coldingham parish of Scottish Borders. The village was originally known as Coldingham Shore, the name St Abbs being adopted in the 1890s.
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Boundary Estate, Bethnal Green
The Boundary Estate was built in the mid-1890s following slum clearance, and is one of the earliest examples of social housing estates in London. Much of the estate, including this building, is listed Grade II by Historic England.
The American yacht Mildred, photographed in the 1890s. My restoration and colorization of a Detroit Publishing Co. image in the Library of Congress archive.
Excerpt from heritagemississauga.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Meadow...:
10. Orr-Mead House
(Est. c. 1870) 1101 Willow Lane
This property exhibits an interesting history, and past owners include several prominent families in the history of Meadowvale Village, including the Gooderham, Orr, Southern and Mead families. The large main house is the newest addition to the property, having been built in 1999 by the Mead family. They incorporated parts of an 1890s inn that was originally in South Carolina. Also on the property are the buildings that served as Johnson’s wagon shop and blacksmith shop, built circa 1870. An earlier residence, built circa 1860, also remains.
Six blocks of downtown Skagway, Alaska are designated as a National Historic District. Within this zone, private, state, city, and federal interests have cooperated to preserve or restore the late 1890s atmosphere.
Skagway is one of the most fascinating towns in all of Alaska. Its rich history and ties to the gold rush
Skagway is a compact city in southeast Alaska, set along the popular cruise route the Inside Passage. It's home to gold-rush-era buildings, now preserved as part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad runs vintage locomotives past the famously steep Chilkoot trail and offers sweeping mountain views during its climb toward Canada. ― Google
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Happy Clicks
~Christie
*Best experienced in full screen
This J. Wallace Johnson House is a 2-1/2 story, Queen Anne styled home built in the early 1890s. Mr. Johnson was a farmer's son born in Monroe County, West Virginia in 1847. In 1856, his father came west to Illinois, and settled upon a farm in northwest McLean County. As an adult, the son farmed the land and raised cattle as a livestock dealer. In the early 1890's Johnson retired from his rural farm and had this Queen Anne styled house built on the northeast corner of Franklin Square. The house was turned into apartments in the early 1940's.
The J. Wallace Johnson House is a contributing property in Bloomington's Franklin Square Historic District, which is located northwest of downtown Bloomington. The Square is named in honor of Franklin Price, who was the mayor of Bloomington Mayor in 1856 when land for the Square was gifted to the city.
Franklin Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was designated a local historic district in 1979. The houses of Franklin Square were built in a variety of architectural styles from the mid 19th century through the early 20th century, including Georgian Revival, Italianate, Colonial, Queen Anne, and Richardsonian Romanesque.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is home to State Farm Insurance, Country Financial and Beer Nuts. Illinois Wesleyan University is located here, while the neighboring city of Normal is home to Illinois State University and Heartland Community College. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
Excerpt from www.niagarathisweek.com/news/mural-project-brings-city-s-...:
Directly across from Lock 6 at Wellington Street, the gathering (August 16, 2009) will include the unveiling of the 12th of the historical murals crafted by local artist Shawn Reimer on the back of industrial buildings along the Welland Canals Parkway.
Dale Robinson, chair of the Welland Canals Parkway Thorold Task Group, said the ambitious murals project nearing completion after nearly five years of work by volunteers will ensure a lasting legacy that will tell the city’s story for generations to come.
The concept for the murals first came when Robinson and her husband would walk along the parkway and run face-to-face into ugly graffiti on the backs of factories. After a meeting in January 2005 among project supporters, work began on the murals project to cover up those tags.
Murals already completed include ones with themes such as Thorold in the 1890s, the city’s first schools, Second World War veterans, the Protection Hose Company and the bombing of Lock 24.
Plans call for a final mural, likely to be completed by next spring, on the War of 1812, said Robinson.
She figures the murals will help people to feel they’re part of a unique community, at a time when many cities are becoming homogenous and the same retail store brands line cities’ streets.
“Every town starts to look like every other town,” said Robinson. “There’s no sense of community.
The Moreton Bay Fig Tree was planted in the 1890s however the exact date and or person/s who planted it is currently unknown. Despite this the tree is associated with the historic buildings of Royal Perth Hospital.
The tree is a dominant feature of the streetscape and dictates the flow of traffic through the area.
"Good Tobacco Sold for 10 Cents" - A small portion of the late 1890s-early 1900s Battle Ax Plug Tobacco ghost sign in downtown Luling.
Welcome to the Wilkins house. This quaint home painted baby blue and pink was once owned by a prominent businessman in the community. However today it has fallen into neglect and now considered endangered as the landmarks office is trying to find a quick buyer.
The house was built by John T. C. Wilkins in 1860. His son would later occupy and renovate the house in the 1890s. He would adapt this house to patterns used by George Barber, an architect from Tennessee. Barbers work was famous for including design features such as gingerbread trim, arches and balconies.
Sadly this property fell into serious neglect after being acquired by the town. It was purchased with the intent of demolition to make way for a new splash park and town well. This didn't sit well with many and the house continued to fall into disrepair. Staff from the local landmarks office took notice and worked with town officials to save this unique house from demolition. An agreement was finally made and now a preservation-minded person is being sourced to purchase the segment of the property with the house. The only catch is that the purchaser will be required to fully restore the house within two years of purchase. As of writing this post, this house is still on the market and has been for sale since 2021. Hopefully someone will save this fairy tale house before it meets an inevitable fate.
John T. C. Wilkins House
Campbellsburg, Indiana (Washington County)
(Information for this post was sourced from indianalandmarks.org)
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Update: As of 2024, this house is undergoing restoration and no longer in the condition that it was photographed!
Cream City originally opened in the late 1890s as Consumer City in the same proximity as it is now. Consumer City made milk and other dairy products which were shipped to the north by covered wagon. The Whitaker family owned the dairy manufacturing business, and through its evolution the name changed to Cream City. In 1948, the building that housed Cream City at that time burned down. A new building was constructed and completed in 1950 and is the same building which stands today. At the time of the new construction, a 3-ton neon sign was erected on top of the building proving to be a tourist attraction along Highway 70. The neon sign has been featured in several magazines and was named one of the top 100 neon signs in the country by American Road Magazine. However, in 1986, a prominent ice cream company purchased Cream City Ice Cream to shut it down as its production became a major competitor. After this, the existing building housed many other businesses including a café, an accounting office, a T-shirt shop, and even living quarters. However, the 3-ton sign and its neon magnetism attracted passer-bys to mainly ice cream. The structure became what it was meant to be again in 2011 when Cream City Ice Cream and Coffee House opened the doors to the public once again as an ice cream shop. The downtown area has officially been titled the "Cream City Historic District" as displayed by the city of Cookeville on designated signage. And, the old 1930s Cream City Ice Cream "Take some home today" sign that was originally displayed on the outside of the building still proudly hangs inside the store today.
Information above was borrowed from Cream City's website found here: www.creamcitycookeville.com/about-us
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5000 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Nächtlicher Blick über die Dienerreihe mit der Holländisch-Brookfleet-Brücke und der Wandrahmsfleetbrücke. Zwischen den Brücken das Speichergebäude Block U am Holländischen Brook.
This country estate was developed during the 1890s and early 1900s by Moses and Bertha Cone, the son and daughter of German and Jewish immigrants. Moses and his brother Caesar established one of North Carolina’s largest textile empires during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Cone fashioned the estate, with its 23-room Colonial Revival mansion Flat Top Manor, as a healthful retreat from the rigors of his business empire. 25 miles of well-planned carriage roads, two man-made lakes, and apple orchards are part of the estate.
Today the manor and the entire estate are one of the most heavily used areas along the Parkway and home to the Parkway Craft Center. Carriage roads are popular for hiking, horseback riding and cross-country skiing, especially by residents of the Boone and Blowing Rock areas.
Together the Moses H. Cone Park and Julian Price Memorial Park comprise the largest developed area set aside for public recreation on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
It is on the Blue Ridge Parkway between mileposts 292 and 295 with access at milepost 294. Most locals call it Cone Park. The park is run by the National Park Service and is open to the public.
www.blueridgeparkway.org/poi/moses-h-cone-memorial-park/
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Portrait of miss Sigrid Schöyen by the Kristiania (Oslo) photographer Gustav Borgen (1865 - 1926). My colorization of
the original image in the Norsk Folkemuseum archive.
According the Norwegian 1910 census, a lady by the name of Sigrid Schöyen (born on June 26,1874) lived in Oslo (former Kristiania) at the time. There is no date for when the photograph was shot, but most likely it was in the late 1890s.
The Sochi Arboretum is a unique museum where flora of Caucasus and different countries is represented. The park is more than 49 hectares (120 acres) in area and numbers about 1,600 species and forms of plants from all over the world. The Arboretum was founded in 1890s by a famous journalist and publisher of that time Stepan Khudyakov. The plants were bought in botanical gardens of the Crimea, Germany and Caucasus. Arboretum is located in Khosta district of Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
The American yacht Mildred, photographed in the 1890s. My colorization of a Detroit Publishing Co. image in the Library of Congress archive.
Fullrigger Macquarie photographed in the 1890s in Australia. My colorization of an image in the MS Maritime Museum of Denmark archive.
The Macquarie was an iron full-rigged ship built in 1875 by R. & H. Green, Blackwall, London. Dimensions: length × beam × depth = 169.7 × 40.1 × 23.6 ft (51.7 × 12.2 × 7.1 m) and tonnage: 1965 GRT, 1857 NRT and 1852 tons under deck. She was equipped with two decks and had a forecastle of 42 feet and a poop of 69 feet. 1953 broken up in Sydney.
Names:
Melbourne (1875-1888)
Macquarie (1888-1904)
Fortuna (1904-1953)
In the end of the 1890s these four ambitious young Finnish gentlemen visited Paris, the hypercenter of the Belle Epoque. While in Paris they decided to acquire the latest model of the classical top hat. Why not let a photographer take a picture of us with the new hats, one of them must have suggested. Off they
went to Photographie Albin, 16 PLACE DU HÂVRE, where this picture was shot. (That is how I imagine it happened)
My restoration and colorization of the original image in the Finnish Heritage Agency archive.
The names of the men, counted from the left: Ragnar af Björkesten, Rolf Thesleff, Torsten Söderhjelm and Edvard Öhrnberg
- Ragnar af Björkesten (1876 - 1965) was a banker and businessman. He was a representative for the nobility in the last Finnish Diet in 1905-1906
- Rolf Thesleff (1878 - 1936) was a PhD (1907, University of Helsinki), businessman and, from 1919 a diplomat. He served as Envoy in Oslo, Rome and Copenhagen.
- Torsten Söderhjelm (1879 - 1908) was a philologist, whose 1907 doctoral thesis dealt with medieval French. Together with his brother Werner he also wrote a book on the Italian renaissance. Torsten Söderhjelm died in Florence, where he and his family lived at the time.
- Edvard Öhrnberg (1863 - 1940) was a lawyer and industry advisor at the ministry for trade and industry.
The last picture of the crew of the Norwegian barque Hans Nielsen Hauge posing on the deck. The photo was shot by an unknown photographer (prob.) in the end of the 1890s in Bristol (UK).
In 1899 the 126 ft barque (built in 1872) met its fate on the stormy Atlantic on its way from Apalachicola (FL, USA) to Le Havre, (France). The ship was observed dismasted, abandoned and full of water in position 51.29N–11.40W. Later she drifted ashore near Vaneltia Island, Ireland.
My colorization of an image in the Maritime Museum of Norway archive (Digital Museum).
Central square in Calico Ghost Town :)
Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in California, located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region. It was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town and abandoned in the 1890s after silver lost its value. In 1890, the estimated population of the town was 3,500 people, including citizens of China, England, Ireland, Greece, France, and the Netherlands, as well as Americans living there, and in 1907 the town was already completely abandoned. Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950s, and rebuilt all but the five remaining original buildings to look as they did in the 1880s. Thanks to this, we can see the town looking almost the same as it did in its best days. In November 1962, Calico Ghost Town was registered as a California Historical Landmark. Nowadays, Calico is a popular tourist attraction. There is a museum, souvenir shops and a camping site, mine tours, stunt shooting shows, gold panning, and demonstrations of traditional costumes and customs of the Wild West. You can also take a ride on the historic Calico & Odessa narrow-gauge railway.
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Centralny plac w Calico :)
Calico to stare miasto wydobywcze rodem z Dzikiego Zachodu, położone w górach Calico, na na pustyni Mojave w południowej Kalifornii. Zostało założone w 1881 roku, jako miasto wydobywające srebro, a porzucono je w latach 90. XIX wieku po tym, jak srebro straciło na wartości. W 1890 roku szacowana populacja miasta wynosiła 3500 osób, a byli to obywatele Chin, Anglii, Irlandii, Grecji, Francji, i Holandii, a także mieszkający tam Amerykanie, zaś od 1907 r. miasto było już całkowicie opuszczone. Walter Knott kupił Calico w latach 50. XX wieku, odrestaurowując wszystkie (poza pięcioma) oryginalne budynki. Dzięki temu oglądać możemy miasto wyglądające niemal tak samo, jak w latach swojej świetności. W listopadzie 1962 roku Calico Ghost Town zostało zarejestrowane jako zabytek historyczny Kalifornii. Obecnie Calico jest popularną atrakcją turystyczną. Znajduje się tam muzeum, sklepy z pamiątkami i pole kempingowe, odbywają się wycieczki po kopalniach, pokazy kaskaderskich strzelanin, płukanie złota, pokazy tradycyjnych strojów i zwyczajów Dzikiego Zachodu. Można się też przejechać zabytkową wąskotorową kolejką Calico & Odessa.
Elf (left) and Beatrice racing in the 1890s. My restoration and colorization of John S. Johnston´s photo in the Library of Congress
archive (Detroit Publishing Co. collection).
"Elf is a racing yacht built in 1888 by George Lawley & Son of South Boston, Massachusetts, for William H. Wilkinson. She was designed by George F. Lawley and is the oldest small yacht in the United States. She is located at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD.Talbot County, Maryland.[2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1980." (Wikipedia)