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The real Story behind the Peaky Blinders was a street gang based in Birmingham, England, that operated from the 1880s until the 1910s. The group, which grew out of the harsh economic deprivations of working-class Britain, comprised largely of young men from lower to middle-class backgrounds and they derived social power from robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and the control of gambling. Members of this gang wore a signature outfit that included tailored jackets, lapel overcoats, button waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps, which they had a practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps!
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This photo from the 1910s has no additional info written or printed on it, but it was bought in Sweden and I have no reason to suspect the sitters would not be from Sweden.
It is two girls dressed in white in their lower teens, and one who is somewhat older. The age-difference is clearly seen also in that the hair is not pinned up on the standing girls - had the photo been somewhat older the skirt length would have been tell-tale also, and it still is on the girl to the left, her skirt is markedly shorter and that of a rather young girl, but you can see that the skirt of the sitting woman is not that much longer and tells of changing fashion trends from how things were in the 19th century when no grown up woman would be seen in anything but full length skirts.
Their exact relationship is just something I can guess at. I don't think they were just friends (friends going to the photographer were otherwise quite popular and I have several examples of that in my collection) but the age-difference is to big for that to be the likeliest explanation. The safest guess is at least that the two girls are sisters. And I think that the one sitting down is also a sister. She could be their mother, but I don't think she is old enough for that (in Sweden, girls married much later on average than they did further south in Europe and would she fit the statistics she should be over 40 to be their mother, and I would say this woman is not).
Whoever they were, they were well off. Going to a photographer was something most people did by then, not just the rich, but they are rather well dressed, the older woman has what looks like a silk collar and cuffs on her dress and the two younger are wearing watches. Can you spot them? Hint: it is not a wrist-watch.
OLEG: *Puffing and panting.* "Hachoo...ha...ha..achoo! Just a few more ....hachoo...metres! I can see the magic portal...." *Puffs more.* "My hands are so cold and my paws are so wet."
PADDY: "Oh come mijn beste vriend Oleg! Come on! It is nice and warm here!" *Encouraging.* "I will give you a helping paw! You made it!" *Smiles.* "Ik hou zo veel van je mijn beste vriend Oleg! I am so glad you are here!"
OLE: *Shivering.* "I'm so glad to see you again mijn allerbeste vriend Paddy. I brought the hat that you can put on the gnome's finger." *Hands hat to Paddy.*
PADDY: "Oh thank you Oleg!" *Gives Oleg a big little bear hug.* "Oh my!" *Gasps.* "Oleg! You are soaking wet!"
OLEG: *Shivering.* "Please mijn beste vriend...do you have hot Twinings English Breakfast tea you can give me? I'm so cold after my ride on my bicycle through the rain through Mummy Marian's garden."
PADDY: "Oh yes, dear Oleg! Come! Let me take you inside. Daddy has the kettle on."
OLEG: "Hachoo...ha...ha..achoo!" *Sniffs and wipes nose.* "Oh thank you Paddy." *Sniffles more.*
PADDY: "Here, snuggle under this nice warm blanket, mijn beste vriend, Oleg. Make yourself comfortable here on the sofa."
OLEG: "Oh thank you Paddy! Hachoo...ha...ha..achoo! You are such a good host."
PADDY: "Here, I will snuggle in right next to you and give you a nice cup of Twinings English Breakfast tea, extra hot! You can warm your paws around the cup, and the tea will warm you tummy and warm you all over from the inside out!"
OLEG: *Shivers less as he starts to warm up. "Oh thank you, dear Paddy! Hachoo!"
PADDY: "Oh it looks like some of the rain clouds in Mummy Marian's garden snuck through with you, Oleg!" *Points to rain clouds floating up into the sky.*
OLEG: "Oh I am so sorry, my dear Paddy! I didn't realise!" *Worried.*
PADDY: "Oh it doesn't matter, Oleg. We need a little bit of rain for the flowers, and soon the clouds will disperse and we will have sunshine again."
OLEG: *Sips hot Twinings English Breakfast tea.*
PADDY: "Do you feel better now, Oleg?"
OLEG: "Do you know what, mijn allerbeste vriend Paddy? I do! I feel warmer, dryer and happier already!"
PADDY: "A cup of tea always makes you feel better, mijn allerbeste vriend Oleg!" *Smiles happily.*
My bears Paddy and Scout have made very good friends with two bears in Holland called Peter and Oleg (www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/galleries/721577154558... and www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/galleries/721577233464...) and their Mummy Marian Kloon (on and off). Peter and Scout are very similar and have become best friends. Peter loves Rosie and Rosie loves Peter, so they have become prince and princess to one another.
Peter was helping Mummy Marian tidy up the garden for winter and was wheeling the gnome when Oleg saw him and suggested putting it in the shed. You can see here: www.flickr.com/photos/66094586@N06/54916639055/in/faves-4... or in the first comment below. Of course Peter said "no" and insisted that he be brought here to our house for the duration. Oleg was very worried that I would be offended by the gesture of the gnome, which he finds most inappropriate, so he tried to stop Peter, but unfortunately without success. Oleg went looking for a hat that could be put on the gnome's finger to make it look friendlier. On his bicycle, in the pouring rain and strong, bitter wind, Oleg raced to the magic portal with a hat for the gnome as you can see here: www.flickr.com/photos/66094586@N06/54927162085 on in the first comment below. Now Oleg is safely at my house, and I am sure that under Paddy's care and ministrations, he will soon feel warm and happy again.
This beautiful Nursery Rhyme tea set has been made by Royal Crown Devon and dates from the late 1910s. It is decorated with "Old Mother Hubbard", "Ding-Dong Dell, Pussy's in the Well", "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Jack and Jill", pictured by famous fine art illustrator John Hassall (1868 - 1948), who was actually a family friend of ours in England. Arguably John Hassall's most famous creation was "The Jolly Fisherman" in 1908, which is regarded as one of the most famous holiday advertisements of all time in the United Kingdom.
My Paddington Bear came to live with me in London when I was two years old (many, many years ago). He was hand made by my Great Aunt and he has a chocolate coloured felt hat, the brim of which had to be pinned up by a safety pin to stop it getting in his eyes. The collar of his mackintosh is made of the same felt. He wears wellington boots made from the same red leather used to make the toggles on his mackintosh.
He has travelled with me across the world and he and I have had many adventures together over the years. He is a very precious member of my small family.
Thank you to Marian Kloon (on and off) for the use of her photo of Oleg in my photo montage.
The Moore Farm Estate (Domaine de la Ferme-Moore), circa early 1910s, in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by the National Capital Commission, and is presently looking for a tenant.
This farm has a rich history, having been originally owned by Philemon Wright, one of the first timber barons on the north shore of the Ottawa River and the founder of Hull (now Gatineau), Quebec.
Source: Scan of a postcard.
Date: 1910s.
Image: P18129.
Photographer: William Hooper, Swindon.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Source: Scan of a postcard from our image collection.
Image: P40347.
Date: 1901-1925.
Inscription: None.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
Motor cruiser Høyang, designed by Richard G. Furuholmen, photographed in Høyanger (Vestland county, Norway) in the 1910s. My colorization of an image in the Oslofjorden museum archive. The boat was owned by the Norsk Aluminium Company (NACO).
Source: Scan of an original item.
Set: GRA02-4.
Date: 1910s?
Postmark: unposted.
Publisher: Tomkins & Barrett, Swindon.
Repository: From the collection of Mr & Mrs Grace.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
The first motorcycle in the village of Svinhult. Shopkeeper Edvin Karlsson showing his new Indian to his friends in the late 1910s (prob.). The original photo by August Christian Hultgren - here processed and colorized by me - is in the Swedish Digital Museum archive (OM.H.001828).
Koyakko (小奴) was a talented dancer in the Shinbashi geisha district of Tokyo. After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 she succeeded to the professional name of Hanayagi Sumi (花柳寿美) and went on to modernize traditional dance-drama. A motion picture was later made of her career.
Art Nouveau style "Fekete Sas" (Black Eagle) Palace
Nagyvárad, Hungary/Transylvania-Partium, 1910s (now Oradea, Romania).
Designed by the great architects of Hungarian Art Nouveau, Komor Marcell and Jakab Dezső, in 1907.
Recent photos here: www.welcometoromania.ro/Oradea/Oradea_Palat_Vulturul_Negr...
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Képeslap az 1910-es évekből: Fekete Sas palota és Nagyszálló, Nagyvárad
Kiadó: Boros Jenő, Nagyvárad
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Feladó: Koszorús Kertész Salamon, K. u. k. Feldkanonen-Regiment (tábori ágyúsezred) No. 34
Nagyvárad
Címzés. Tekintetes Varga György urnak
Tanonc Otthon, Nyíregyháza, Hatzel tér
'1917. IV. 15.
Igen Tisztelt Gondnok úr!
Itt vagyok Nagyváradon tábori tüzér. Elég jó dolgunk van itten, csak sokat kell tanulni németül. Mit csinálnak a fiuk. Tisztel(tet)em a gondnok ur családját
hálás növendéke
Kertész Salamon"
Varga György, tanonc-otthoni gondnok: library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Nyirvidek_1922_05/?pg=109&.../view/Nyirvidek_1922_05/?pg=109&...
Having discovered who now lives behind the blue door on the Milltown Road, we now discover that Mrs Farmer from Clonmel was an elegant lady. If she was the wife of a farmer named Farmer, then she did not farm in that elegant outfit!
+++ UPDATE +++
Thanks to Sharon Corbet for revealing at lot more about “Mrs Farmer”. Mary Constance Farmer (née Barry) was married to retired Captain Langford Llanwarne Farmer. They had married in Kanturk in 1903, and had two sons Arthur and Frank. Mary was aged around 40 in this photograph. And speaking of “revealing”, if you read down through the comments, you may be discombobulated by the discussion of knickers. To see why, zoom in on the catalogue Mary Farmer is perusing...
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: The Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford
Date: ca. 9 March 1910
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2012
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Swift 10/12 (1911) Engine1814 cc
SWIFT SET
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Shot at the aviva Classic, Silverstone 20.09.2009 ref. 47-188
Source: Digital image.
Set: WIL04.
Date: c1910.
Photographer: William Hooper.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Repository: From the collection of Mr P. Williams.
Used here by his very kind permission.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Cabinet card, 1910s
Photographer: Opál Műterem
Rákosliget (today part of Budapest)
VII. utca 10. szám
Vecsés
Batthyány utca 4.
Hungary
Activity/Működése: 1903-1915
Matild was here engaged, the photo was taken for her fiancé, Szenograczky János. His name is written on the reverse with his address, Rákoscsaba-Újtelep. Szenograczky was a house painter.
They had a boy in 1917, who died in WW2, in 1942, his name was Szenograczky Jenő. The family lived in Rákoscsaba, Losonczy út 70.
Kaiser Matild menyasszonyként, a bal kezén jegygyűrű. A kép valószínűleg a vőlegénye számára készült, a neve és címe a verzón szerepel: Szenograczky János, Rákoscsaba-Újtelep. Az Opál Műterem is Rákoscsaba közelében működött, Rákosligeten.
Szenograczky János festő-mázoló volt Rákoscsabán. genealogyindexer.org/view/1931H/1931H - 0434.pdf
Volt egy fiuk, Szenograczky Jenő, 1917-ben született, és 1942-ben halt meg az orosz fronton. Akkoriban is Rákoscsabán élt a család, a Losonczy út 70. sz. alatt. www.hadisir.hu/hadisir/?bejegyzesek=adatlap&id=765232...
A relic from a century ago seems to be surviving well, with a lot of maintenance, no doubt. Early spring view.
Car parked in front of an unidentified residence on Seventh Street. Photograph, ca. 1910. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collection. Swekosky-MHS Collection. n14719.
Sepia-toned studio portrait of an elegant woman in formal attire, holding a small purse, taken in Budapest, Hungary, 1910s.
Cabinet card, 1910s
Photographer: Opál Műterem
Rákosliget (today part of Budapest)
VII. utca 10.szám
Vecsés
Batthyány utca 4.
Hungary
Activity/Működése: 1903-1915
Matild was here engaged, the photo was taken for her fiancé, Szenograczky János. His name is written on the reverse with his address, Rákoscsaba-Újtelep. Szenograczky was a house painter.
They had a boy in 1917, who died in WW2, in 1942, his name was Szenograczky Jenő. The family lived in Rákoscsaba, Losonczy út 70.
Kaiser Matild menyasszonyként, a bal kezén jegygyűrű. A kép valószínűleg a vőlegénye számára készült, a neve és címe a verzón szerepel: Szenograczky János, Rákoscsaba-Újtelep. Az Opál Műterem is Rákoscsaba közelében működött, Rákosligeten.
Szenograczky János festő-mázoló volt Rákoscsabán. genealogyindexer.org/view/1931H/1931H - 0434.pdf
Volt egy fiuk, Szenograczky Jenő, 1917-ben született, és 1942-ben halt meg az orosz fronton. Akkoriban is Rákoscsabán élt a család, a Losonczy út 70. sz. alatt. www.hadisir.hu/hadisir/?bejegyzesek=adatlap&id=765232...
Momotaro, seated on the left, and four other Maiko (Apprentice Geisha) admiring the decoration on a folding fan. A vintage postcard from the late 1910s or early 1920s.
Caption in the upper right-hand corner: "The Deestrick Skule." A penciled-in dealer's note on the other side identifies the location as "Strasburg, Pa."
This is a photo of children dressed in costumes to portray pupils, the schoolmaster, school committee members, and local citizens for a play about the funny goings-on at the old-time "Deestrick Skule" or district school -- the one-room schoolhouse of the early nineteenth century (not the school districts that resulted from the later consolidation of these small schools).
Mrs. M. H. Jaquith of Topeka, Kansas, was the author of The Deestrick Skule of Fifty Years Ago (1888) and "Exerbition" of the Deestrick Skule of Fifty Years Ago (1890). Both of these provided scripts and suggestions for producing local theatrical productions that could accommodate fifty or more participants (there are forty kids in this photo).
The Cyko stamp box (Cyko 5, variation A2.66) on the other side of this divided-back real photo postcard has an earliest known usage date of May 2, 1910, according to Brogan and Weseloh's Real Photo Postcard Guide (2006).
A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of when I grow up (children dressed as adults or dressed for work, e.g. as policeman, nurse, train driver, etc.). It also fits the monthly theme of group portraits.
Sepia-toned 1910s studio portrait of a Hungarian family posing formally, taken in Debrecen by photographer Gyula Ruzicska.
Portrait of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. My coloriztion of a photo by Harris & Ewing in the Library of Congress archive. The library does not give any date (except for the timeframe 1895 - 1925). To me it is quite clear that this photo was taken after Mrs. McLean´s marriage in 1908, probably in the 1910s.
"Evalyn Walsh McLean (August 1, 1886 – April 26, 1947) was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the 45-carat (9.0 g) Hope Diamond (which was bought in 1911 for $180,000 from Pierre Cartier), as well as another famous diamond, the 94-carat (18.8 g) Star of the East. She also authored the memoir, Father Struck It Rich, together with Boyden Sparkes."
"Evalyn was born on August 1, 1886, in Leadville, Colorado, the only daughter of Carrie Bell Reed, a former schoolteacher, and Thomas Walsh, an Irish immigrant miner and prospector. She had one sibling, a brother, Vinson Walsh (1888–1905), who died in a car accident in Newport, Rhode Island, when he was 17 years old. When she was twelve years old, her father discovered a gold mine and became a multimillionaire. The family moved to a large mansion on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. At the age of fourteen, Evalyn moved to Paris for singing lessons. Instead she lived a wild life, coloring her hair and drinking alcohol. She began adding rouge to her cheeks to adopt the look of prostitutes." --
"In 1908, she married Edward "Ned" Beale McLean, the son of John Roll McLean and heir to The Washington Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer publishing fortune. They had four children:" --
"On January 28, 1911, in a deal made in the offices of The Washington Post, McLean's husband purchased the Hope Diamond for $189,000 (equivalent to $4,939,000 in 2019) from Pierre Cartier of Cartier Jewelers in New York. The Hope Diamond was traditionally associated with a curse, but no tragic events befell the couple until eight years later. Due to the rumors of a curse, Evalyn's friends, and her mother-in-law, urged her to sell it back, but Cartier refused to buy it."
(Wikipedia)
After the death Evelyn Walsh McLean, the Hope Diamond - one of the most famous jewels in the world - and her other jewels were bought by Harry Winston:
."It was purchased in 1949 by New York gem merchant Harry Winston, who toured it for a number of years before giving it to the National Museum of Natural History of the United States in 1958, where it has since remained on permanent exhibition."
(Wikipedia)
The Hope Diamond is said to have been insured for $250 million.
Vintage photograph on cardboard
" Zu liebem Gedenken.
Opotschno 18 4/10 (?)
Olmütz 19 6/10 (?)"
(In loving memory of the deceased grandparents)
Opotschno (Opočno) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opo%C4%8Dno
Olmütz (Olomouc) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc
Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, today Czech Republic
Bought in Vienna
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A geigi (geisha) with an offering of sake for the guardian kitsune (foxes) at the entrance of an Inari Jinja (shrine).
A group of Maiko girls (apprentice geisha) on a balcony overlooking the Kamo River in Kyoto, sometime around the late 1910s.
This group includes Maiko Momotarō (holding her hands up), Maiko Fumiryō (pouring sake), and Maiko Kohisa (receiving the sake).
Outdoor portrait, around 1900s - early 1910s
Cabinet card
Taken probably by an itinerant photographer.
Love the pretty Art Nouveau/Secession style verso:
published by Wanaus József photographer, Budapest.
mek.oszk.hu/03600/03630/html/w/w30275.htm
Wanaus József, fényképész, szakíró, üzletember, Wanaus Fényképészeti készülékek és Eszközök Gyára
It was customary for a tayuu (Japanese courtesan) to have two kamuro (child attendants) of about the same age and size, with names that matched in concept and sound, taking their cue from the name of their ane-jōro (elder sister courtesan).
Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.
Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). The boss said that next year Mary will work steady as the rest of them. The mother is the fastest shucker in the place. Earns $1.50 a day. Works part of the time with her sick baby in her arms. Father works on the dock. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.
1911 March.
1 photographic print.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 2059.
Subjects:
Children & adults.
Cannery workers.
Oyster industry.
Shucking.
Babysitting.
Wages.
United States--Louisiana--Dunbar.
Format: Photographic prints
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) 2004667950
General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.00918
Call Number: LOT 7476, no. 2059
Geiko (geisha) Komitsu in the dark blue kimono, with maiko (apprentice geisha) Tokiko seated beside her, during the late 1910s.
(glass negative) üvegnegatív 01. két férfi 'bőgatyában' - Hungary 1910s?
mek.oszk.hu/02100/02115/html/2-604.html
www.tankonyvtar.hu/hu/tartalom/tkt/magyar-neprajzi-lexiko...
Built in 1913. Item 196449, Woodland Park Zoo Photograph Collection (Record Series 8640-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.