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Crystal Beach is a community within Fort Erie, Ontario with a population of 3,800. It was named for the "crystal-clear" water conditions present when it was founded on the northeast shore of Lake Erie, across from Buffalo
A little bit of Norway in Texas. Immigrants from Norway first began settling in Bosque County in the mid-1800s. With strong ties to its Norwegian heritage, the church and nearby community retained use of Norwegian as the primary language well into the 1900s.
St. Olaf’s Kirke (Church) was built in 1886 by architect Andrew Mickelson and his brothers, Christian and Ole Mickelson to serve the Norwegian immigrants of the area. It was built with local limestone from which it became known locally as “The Rock Church”. The church is now used only for special services.
The church has neither running water nor electricity, and is heated by an old wood-burning stove. Both the stove and the Vocalion Reed Pump Organ were manufactured before 1900. The hand-painted finish on the pews mimic more expensive wood. Pews, floors, and light fixtures are all original. A beautiful carved wooden reredos (altar screen) stands behind the altar with the pulpit in the center above the altar.
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This sampler, stitched by my husband's Grandmother (most likely late 1800s or early 1900s), hangs in our front foyer. HSoS
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Bodnant Garden (Welsh: Gardd Bodnant) is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, in the county borough of Conwy, Wales, situated overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau range of mountains. Founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family, it was gifted to the care of the National Trust in 1949. The garden spans 80 acres of hillside and includes formal Italianate Terraces, informal Shrub Borders stocked with plants from around the world, and The Dell, a gorge garden with UK Champion Trees and a waterfall. Since 2012 new areas to open have included the Winter Garden, Old Park Meadow, Yew Dell and The Far End, a riverside garden. There are plans to open more new areas in future. Bodnant Garden is visited by around 190,000 people every year and is famous for its Laburnum Arch, the longest in the UK, which flowers in May and June. The garden is also celebrated for its link to the plant hunters of the early 1900s whose expeditions formed the base of the garden's four National Collections of plants – Magnolia, Embothrium, Eucryphia and Rhododendron forrestii.
Coordinates 53° 14′ 3.12″ N, 3° 48′ 2.16″ W
53.2342, -3.8006
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A very simple one for today. This button is a recent addition to my vintage collection and dates back to the 1900s. It's made of glass, set in gilt metal, and has a raised design that looks like embroidery. The tin thimble is from the 1920s and the wooden cotton reel from sometime before 1950.
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75 Second Street (1850): Originally used as a farmhouse. During the 1900s, it became the home of Dr. Black. The Arnoldi family of Toronto purchased the property and lived in the house between 1914-1918. It is a 19th century 2 1/2 storey stucco house with 2 bays. Architectural details include moulded soffit and brackets, bay window and main entranceway with piered door surrounds and broken pediment.
Source: Scan of an original postcard.
Album: MID01.
Date: 1900s.
Postmark: September 30th 1907.
Publisher: H.J. Gregory, Swindon.
Repository: From the collection of Mr T. Midwinter.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
I love domestic history, and I am known to often end up like Alice : lost down the rabbit hole, in my case a rabbit hole of historical facts. When history is coupled with one of my other passions - haberdashery, in particular cotton spools with beautiful thread heads with elegant graphics - then I am in heaven! This is one such example.
D. H. Evans was a large department store along the major West End shopping strip of Oxford Street. D. H. Evans was opened in 1879 by Dan Harries Evans at 320 Oxford Street. Evans was a Welshman who had trained as draper and had moved to London in 1878. The store quickly grew and by 1885 it had absorbed three of the stores adjoining it. In 1893, the store moved into further new premises at 290 to 294 Oxford Street and became a limited liability company. In 1897, Dan Evans resigned as Managing Director but stayed on the board, and was replaced by Harrods manager Ernest Webb on the advice of Harrods and D. H. Evans director Richard Burbridge. The business continued to expand by purchasing the business of neighbors James Goodman and Arthur Saunders, and in 1906, announced the rebuilding of the collection of buildings on the west side of Old Cavendish Street. In 1915, Dan Evans retired from the board and was replaced by Ernest Webb's son William Wallace Webb. By 1928, however, D. H. Evans realized they could not expand without further investment, and due to the relationship with Harrods agreed a merger with Harrods being the senior partner, with William Burbridge becoming the chairman. 1935, land bounded by Oxford Street, Old Cavendish Street, Henrietta Street and Chapel Place was acquired and demolished for a new store designed by Louis Blanc, which opened in 1937. In 1954, Harrods was purchased by House of Fraser, and D. H. Evans become a trading arm within the Harrods group. A second D. H. Evans store was added in Wood Green, London in 1980, and the Oxford Street store was refurbished twice between 1982 and 1985. I began to shop there during this period. In 2001, the store was rebranded under the House of Fraser name. The store closed permanently in January 2022.
This small spool of creamy white thread has never been used, and comes from D. H. Evans' heyday in the Edwardian era of the early Twentieth Century. I acquired it from a collector in Dorset, divesting herself of some of her pieces as she downsizes her home. The spool has been photographed on a piece of heavily embroidered Art Deco patterned organza which I bought from a specialist shop that has a particularly wonderful range of unusual fabrics that they sell by the quarter metre (just enough for my purposes).
EN: Once found throughout the country, Portuguese Railways 1900s are now hard to find. There are currently only 3 locomotives left in the entire country, all of them wearing a different livery.
Eva, the yellow locomotive 1903, was a first attempt to give the diesel locomotives a new outfit some years ago. Basically, it was a model for a special paint scheme, which had not been seen at Medway before. Apparently it was only an idea, because there was no other locomotive of any series in this livery anymore.
In the background you can see mineira de Neves-Corvo, one of the largest copper mines in Europe. Every day Medway runs 2 - 3 trains to bring the valuable freight to the port of Setubál. Expansion plans of foreign investors are already on the table, we are eagerly awaiting how it will continue in the Portuguese Algarve with copper mining.
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DE: Einst im ganzen Land anzutreffen, sind die 1900er der Portugisischen Eisenbahn heute schwer zu finden. Es gibt aktuell nur noch 3 Loks im ganzen Land, welche alle eine andere Farbe tragen.
Eva, die gelbe Lok 1903, war vor einigen Jahren ein erster Versuch den Dieselloks ein neues Outfit zu geben. Quasi ein Modell für eine spezielle Bemalung, welche bei Medway so noch nicht zu sehen war. Anscheinend blieb es bei dem Versuch, den es gab von keiner Baureihe eine andere Lok in dieser Bemalung.
Im Hintergrund ist die Mineira de Neves-Corvo zu sehen, eine der grössten Kupferminen in Europa. Täglich führt Medway 2 - 3 Züge ab um die wertvolle Fracht an den Hafen von Setubál zu bringen. Ausbaupläne der ausländischen Investoren liegen bereits auf dem Tisch, wir warten gespannt wie es in der portugisischen Algarve weitergeht mit dem Kupferabbau.
1905 Pope-Toledo Type IV 3.8, 24HP. This Roi-des-Belges ("King of Belgium") or tulip phaeton was a car body style used on luxury motor vehicles in the early 1900s and very popular among the wealthy. It was a double phaeton with exaggerated bulges "suggestive of a tulip". The rear bulges accommodated two corner seats like tub armchairs which sometimes were accessed from the rear by a central door with a small fold-down seat. The Roi-des-Belges style began with a 1901 40 hp Panhard et Levassor with a Rothschild body commissioned by Leopold II of Belgium. The style lasted through the decade.
Albert Augustus Pope (May 20, 1843 – August 10, 1909), at the age of nineteen, joined the Union Army attached to the 35th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. The unit crossed the Potomac River on September 7, and just ten days later, fought at Antietam. Pope survived a bout with cholera, and his unit served at the Battles of Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and Knoxville. He mustered out as a Captain, though he received the honorary title of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel for distinguished service.
A flamboyant and generally successful businessman, who started with bicycles, then motorcycles and eventually produced Automobiles.
Between the years 1903 and 1915, the company operated a number of automobile companies including Pope-Hartford (1903–1914), Pope-Robinson, Pope-Toledo (1903–1909), Pope-Tribune (1904–1907) and Pope-Waverly. Kind of an early General Motors. The Pope-Toledo was the most expensive of the group.
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A former one-room schoolhouse (c late 1800s/early 1900s) in Perrault (Bonnechere Valley), Ontario, Canada.
I am unable to find any information regarding this old schoolhouse, let alone any historical information about the community of Perrault. It is assuredly a French name.
The first settler in Eganville was Gregoire Belanger (also a French name) in 1825, and its post office dates from 1852, and it was incorporated as a Village in the 1890s.
I would venture a guess that this old schoolhouse may have been built in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Perrault is located a short drive south of Eganville on County Road 41.
Early 1900s postcard of the Springburn Park boating lake. It's a Heliotyped card and unposted. It says on the back: Inland 1/2d. Foreign 1d, with nothing but the address on this side. Imagine sending a postcard with no message on it? I suppose you'd have to write on the front of the card on the sky area if posting abroad.
Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, Alaska, has an impressive collection of historic cabins dating from the city's founding in the early 1900s. These historic buildings have been moved to this location to save them from destruction and to preserve the area's rich past. Now used as small business venues serving park visitors, these cabins allow one to get a sense of what life on the Last Frontier was like less than one-hundred years ago.
Generations of families worked down the North East’s pits – it was the industry on which the region’s prosperity was built. In 1913, the year of peak production, 165,246 men and boys worked in Durham’s 304 mines.
My grandma and grandpa had a romantic story... he was an immigrant from ireland, only he lied and told everyone that he was British so he could get a job. Somehow, he got away with it his whole life, and it wasn't until he died that we discovered the truth. My grandmother was Danish, and she was my only grandparent actually born in the states. My grandfather saw my grandmother and fell in love at first sight, and followed her everywhere, including the choir loft at church where she sang. Her family called him "the Foreigner"... until, I suppose, they had to call him their son-in-law.
This is the only picture I've seen of them together when they were young other than their wedding portrait; I love how relaxed they are. And the puppy. The puppy's good, too.
Source: Scan of an original postcard.
Set: MID01.
Date: c1905.
Postmark: August 20th 1905.
Publisher/photographer: William Hooper, Swindon.
HOOPER COLLECTION ©P. WILLIAMS.
Repository: From the collection of Mr T. Midwinter.
Used here by his very kind permission.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
A vintage photo of what I assume to be mother and daughter. They seem so happy together in this shot and that's what drew me to it. I think by the way they're dressed, the photo was taken in the 1900's or 1910's.
Bicyclist at Greenfield Village, MI turns a corner in front of the original Wright brothers' store (moved from OH).
Anyone who has seen the latest series of "All Creatures Great and Small", might recognise this from the first episode. It stood in for Sunderland, when James and Tristan went to visit Mrs Hall at her son's house - one of the houses on the left in this shot.
This shot was taken from the top of one of the trams, a view of the houses can be seen in the comment below.
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Wood ducks are the most abundant resident wild ducks in Florida. Males are brightly colored, while females are a muted gray brown.
Wood ducks prefer wooded wetlands, streams or swampy areas; they feed on floating mast, fruit and seeds of water tupelo, oaks and cypress. They are unusual among ducks in that they are hole nesters. A shortage of nest cavities limits their nesting, but fortunately these ducks readily use nest boxes.
The recovery of wood duck populations is one of North America’s conservation success stories. In the early 1900s the species was almost extinct. Destruction of bottomland hardwood swamps and hunting had decimated wood duck populations across the eastern USA. The recovery began with the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1918, which prohibited the hunting of wood ducks nationwide. The wide-scale use of artificial nest boxes also contributed to the wood duck’s recovery and populations rebounded; hunting seasons reopened in 1941.
I found this one in my backyard Lake Wales, Florida.
L’arum est une fleur magnifique et spectaculaire, en forme de cornet. L'arum est le symbole de l'âme. Ses grandes fleurs blanches étaient très courantes dans les années 1900 lors des cérémonies religieuses importantes comme les mariages, les fiançailles ou encore les communions. L’’arum, nommé aussi calla, est une vivace rhizomateuse . Sa hampe florale rigide et verticale se termine par une spathe en entonnoir évasé qui cache un spadice jaune ou orangé. Attention : l’arum est une plante à fleurs toxique dans son ensemble.
The arum is a beautiful and spectacular flower, shaped like a cornet. The arum is the symbol of the soul. Its large white flowers were very common in the 1900s during important religious ceremonies such as weddings, engagements or communions. Arum, also called calla, is a rhizomatous perennial. Its rigid, upright floral stem ends in a flared funnel spathe hiding a yellow or orange spadix. Warning: Arum is a toxic flowering plant as a whole.
-- El arum es una flor hermosa y espectacular, con forma de cucurucho. El arum es el símbolo del alma. Sus grandes flores blancas eran muy comunes en la década de 1900 durante importantes ceremonias religiosas como bodas, compromisos o comuniones. Arum, también llamada cala, es una planta perenne rizomatosa. Su tallo floral rígido y vertical termina en un embudo acampanado que esconde un espádice amarillo o naranja. Advertencia: Arum es una planta de floración tóxica en su conjunto.
The weather has been pretty atrocious for much of today - very wet and windy - so I opted for indoor photography. The silver thimble, depicting 2 Turtle doves, is French and dates from the 1910s. The scissors are also French and date back to the 1900s. As so often seems to be the case these days, the lovely little miniature rose came from the supermarket. That supermarket does me proud. :)
Taken with Lensbaby Velvet 56.
On a foggy morning pierced by the sun, my attention was grabbed by the poured silo which dates the old barn sitting beside it. Poured silos became prevalent in the early 1900s before concrete staves later took over and dominated the main construction method for silos for quite a few years. When my brain started to slowly develop in my teen years in the 1950s I became aware the silo on our farm was constructed from interlocking cement staves held in place by circular iron rods that embraced the round silo.
Looking through the fog framing the barn there are reminders sitting by the barn of things used by a farmer years ago trying to eke out a living on a smaller farm. A couple of old portable self-feeders lie overturned on the east side of the barn and an old wagon sits in an open space on the left side of the structure.
I am old enough to remember when self-feeders began to lighten the load of daily feedings of livestock. Many hog farmers used ones that were steel and revolved as pigs snuffed out the feed. Today a new 100 bushel steel self-feeder can cost up to $3,000 so even at prices back in the 1950s they were not a cheap alternative to hand labor.
My father built an ingenious wooden A-frame hog feeder with a large opening about eight foot up from the ground. We would grind corn with a power-takeoff powered loud portable grain grinder that would blow the feed into this opening. The feed would pile up and through gravity would provide feed at the bottom through small slots into wooden trays. The pigs could enter this small building from either side and would stand in rows like cows in stanchions and noisily eat their days away while happily twitching their curled tails.
This method allowed a presentation of a couple of weeks’ worth of feed for the pigs, feed which did not have to be physically handled each day by one of dad’s unpaid young male laborers.
Unlike our wealthier neighbors, we never had a similar method to feed the few beef cattle we raised so dad’s red-haired son through his teenage years hauled hundreds of 5 gallon pails, two at a time, full of ground corn from a storage room about twenty yards away in a far corner of the barn and out through the silo room where it was dumped unceremoniously into wooden feed troughs as the beef cows tried to step on his feet as they crowded around the newly poured feed.
That same kid developed large upper body muscles unlike the town kids but to this day suffers back and neck problems as a nostalgic reminder of those wonderful times.
(Photographed near Rush City, MN)
The Burning House in Sidney Street where Houndsditch Assassins Perished
This is a black and white printed postcard published by an unknown publisher of the the Battle of Stepney, also known as the Siege of Sidney Street. The postcard has a postmark dated 9 February 1911.
from Wikipedia:
In December 1910 there was an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants. The robbery resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.
The police were informed that the final two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney. The police evacuated local residents from the environs, and on the morning of 3 January 1911 a firefight broke out. Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army.
The siege lasted for about six hours. Towards the end of the stand-off, the building caught fire; no single cause has been identified. One of the agitators in the building was shot before the fire took control. While the London Fire Brigade were damping down the ruins—in which they found the two bodies—the building collapsed, killing a fireman, Superintendent Charles Pearson.
It is 1909 and the women garment workers have had enough! They have left their sewing machines in the deplorable shirtwaist factories of New York City and have taken to the the picket lines to demand better conditions and fair practices. About 20,000 women joined the picket lines.
They are objecting to:
65 hour workweeks (they want it reduced to 52 hours),
Low wages (they want a 20% increase and overtime pay),
Being required to provide their own needles and thread,
Dangerous working conditions (In 1911, 146 garment workers - mostly immigrant girls age 14-23 - died in a factory fire in NYC),
Unfair fines
March of 20,000
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3R-SKnxgA&t=468s
Clara Lemlich
www.villagepreservation.org/2017/11/21/november-29-1909-a...
Blythe a Day - Tools Down - 7/11/24
Blythe dolls:
Daunting Drusilla wearing a dress from Amazon, skirt from Etsy and a hat from a doll show
Winterish Allure - wearing a dress from Etsy, Barbie collar, Daunting Drusilla's bow
Matryoshka Maiden wearing Blue Rabbit's stock dress
Blue Rabbit wearing a Barbie dress and hat I found this week at a thrift store for fifty cents
Background - made by me - scrapbook paper and printed images of window, door
Sidewalk and step - made by me from wood, egg carton bricks, paint, and grout
#doll #blythe #blythediorama #winterishallureblythe #dauntingdrusillablythe #blythediorama
dickens world is a indoor tourist attraction showing Charles dickens
era the people, buildings and lifestyles from the 1800s to the 1900s
My grandfather was born in 1896. This is a postcard from his youth/young adult years.
For Valentine's Day.
By the early 1900s, the architectural character of Argent Street had been established. Continuous verandahs were the most distinctive feature but were gradually removed after 1950. There has been a large amount of demolition and rebuilding since the 1960s.
The upper end of Argent Street (facing southwest) was destroyed by a fire on the 5th of November 1888, which is Guy Fawkes Day. Most of the buildings were constructed of timber and iron and perished quickly. The single pumping unit of the fire brigade was inadequate and the area burnt for six hours. Only the wide streets stopped the fire from spreading. Within a few days, temporary structures were wet up in the ruins and business commenced. By 1889, the entire area had been completely rebuilt.
Source: City of Broken Hill.
Nestled in Beamish Museum’s 1900s Pit Village, Davy’s Fried Fish Shop brings to life the sights, sounds and aromas of a traditional North East fish and chip shop. Opened in 2011, it incorporates original fittings and coal-fired frying ranges inspired by the famous Davy family business in Winlaton Mill, allowing visitors to experience how one of Britain’s favourite meals was cooked and served over a century ago. Whether you’re there for the history or the food, it’s one of Beamish’s most popular and memorable attractions.
Cabinet card around 1900s -1910
Photographer: Erdős Sándor
Budapest
Thököly út 24.
Founded in 1899
Other studio: Budapest, Károly körút 6., 1895
Later associated with Brenner.
"Este és borús időben
felvételek villanyfény mellett" ...
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One of the most important buildings in Athens, the neoclassical Zappeion Hall is closely linked to the history of modern Greece. Its construction was funded by national benefactor, Evangelos Zappas and was completed in 1888. It was the first building in the world specifically constructed to serve the Olympic Games. After a series of misadventures, Zappas assigned the design to the Danish architect Theophil Hansen but did not live to see the building completed. The Zappeion Hall was put to many uses and for some time, hosted the country’s first state radio station, which began broadcasting in 1938. It has been linked with numerous significant moments in the country’s history, including the signing of the treaty for the accession of Greece to the European Union (then the EEC) on 1 January 1981 by Konstantinos Karamanlis. Since Greece’s return to democracy in 1974, Zappeion has served as the press centre in all of the country’s general elections, providing the setting for the post-election interviews of winners and losers alike. The hall is currently used as an exhibition and congress facility.
In 1869, the Greek Parliament allocated 80,000 square metres (860,000 sq ft) of public land between the Palace Gardens and the ancient Temple of Olympian Zeus, and also passed a law on 30 November 1869, "for the building works of the Olympic Games", as the Zappeion was the first building to be erected specifically for the revival of the Olympic Games in the modern world.[1][2] The ancient Panathenian stadium was also refurbished as part of the works for the Olympic Games. Following some delay, on 20 January 1874, the cornerstone of the building was laid;[3] this new building would be designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen.[3] Finally, on 20 October 1888, the Zappeion opened.[3] Unfortunately for its benefactor, Evangelis Zappas, he did not live long enough to see the Zappeion built, and his cousin Konstantinos Zappas was nominated by Evangelos Zappas to complete the building
The Zappeion was used during the 1896 Summer Olympics as the main fencing hall. A decade later, at the 1906 Intercalated Games, it was used as the Olympic Village.[5] It served as the first host for the organizing committee (ATHOC) for the 2004 Games from 1998 to 1999 and served as the press center during the 2004 games.
Howth Pier and Martello Tower, Howth, Dublin, Ireland
Howth Martello overlooks Howth Harbour. Martello Towers were built in 1804 to protect against a possible invasion of Ireland by Napoleon of France. This is one of 21 Martello towers that have survived in County Dublin. Many have been demolished and some are privately owned. Today, Howth’s Martello house’s a vintage radio museum that exhibits radios and gramophones from the early 1900s to the present day. [Internet]
... at the entrance to the plane tree grove, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Rather an affected, exaggerated style, as was not untypical of the Jugendstil era.
At first I thought the engraved writing was some kind of runic script, but now I see that they are Latin letters and the language is German, so I can read it, albeit with difficulty:
DU ERSCHEINST SCHÖN
IM HORIZONTE DES HIMMELS
DU LEBENDE SONNE
DIE ZUERST LEBTE
DU GEHST AUF
IM ÖSTLICHEN HORIZONT
UND FÜLLST DIE ERDE
MIT DEINER SCHÖNHEIT
Huh?
Anyway, it's strangely appropriate to this sunny winter day, although the picture was shot in the afternoon.
Agfa Optima 1035 Sensor
Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 400 colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
We spent an enjoyable day at Beamish, the living history museum in Durham, the North East of England.
This was our 2nd visit and we still haven't seen it all!
If you're interested in social history, I'd highly recommend you visit here; it's quite pricey but definitely worth it!
Here you can see Joseph Herron Bakery, brought to Beamish in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the Chemist and Plate Photographer which was brought to the museum and opened just after the 2014 guidebook was published, the Beamish Motor & Cycle Garage which opened at the museum in 1994 and is a replica of a typical early 20th century garage and the Anfield Plain Industrial Co-Operative Society (a Co-Op store) which contains a grocery department, a Hardware store selling typical 1900s household items and equipment and a Drapery dep't which sold materials for making clothes, household linen and other items at home.
There are several other houses, stores and businesses, including a Barclay's Bank, stables, a printers and stationer's office, a sweet shop where you can watch the confectioners make real sweets according to recipes and methods used in the early 20th century and a Masonic Hall.