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The back of a Victorian-era pass for omnibus travel and baggage delivery. See also the front of the pass.
Not Transferable.
Good in Omnibus only between Hotel and Depot and transfer of Baggage in City.
I took this with my Pentax K-x and the 18-55 smc DA Lens. It's a photo of our Citiy Hall and surrounding buildings. The view is from part way up the hill on Pleasant Street. I used an Antique Filter, while working on the RAW image in Adobe Lightroom 5.7. Then went over to PS CS6 to make some final adjustments, and save as a JPEG file for uploading.
February 18, 2015 / 8:47:22 a.m. / 34 mm - 1-160 sec - ƒ/7.1 - ISO 100 - Adobe Photoshop - Lightroom 5.7 (Windows) - PENTAX K-x - PENTAX / Center-weighted average metering.
202/365 Days Project.
"Compliments of the Season. Baker Bros. Eng. Co. Designers. Engravers. Omaha, Neb."
A sign that's barely visible at the top of the building on the right says, "Henshaw Ho[tel]."
This is an early twentieth-century Christmas postcard that the Baker Brothers Engraving Company of Omaha, Nebraska, sent to its customers. It's addressed on the other side to Geo. P. McGrew, Peru, Nebr. (but "Peru" was incorrect, apparently, since it was crossed out, and "Auburn" was added in a different hand).
The card was postmarked in Omaha on December 23, 1907, and then postmarked a second time in Peru, Nebraska, on January 3, 1908.
Spiegelgracht 11/02/2021 14h20
Drop shadows in the mid afternoon on the Spiegelgracht.
Spiegelgracht
The Spiegelgracht is a canal in the centre of Amsterdam, located near the Prinsengracht. Built in the 16th century, it is a part of the Canals of Amsterdam which have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The Spiegelgracht connects the Amsterdam Prinsengracht with the Lijnbaansgracht / Zieseniskade. There are many small, narrow canal houses on the short canal, which is part of the canal belt. The Spiegelgracht, opposite the Rijksmuseum, together with the adjacent Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, forms the heart of the Spiegelkwartier, a neighborhood with many antique shops and galleries.
The canal was dug in 1663 after the second phase of the construction of the canal belt started in 1658. Previously, in front of the place where the Spiegelgracht is now located, was the Amstelveen stronghold, with the De Spiering corn mill on top. The bulwark that stood just in front of the middle of the Spiegelgracht gave the canal a special appearance.
The Spiegelgracht is named after the renowned Amsterdam Spiegel family. To date, it has not been clear from the archives which descendant of this family was specifically honored with this. But it is plausible that the moat was named after the greatest of this generation, the philosophical writer and thinker Hendrick Laurensz. Spiegel, also because he was the first to write a song of praise for the city of Amsterdam in the Dutch language (late 16th century).
A late nineteenth-century label by Huntoon & Gorham, a cigar manufacturer. Note the Gaslight Style characteristics, with elaborate typefaces, curved text, drop shadows, and the rays of the sun shining out from behind the clouds.
Huntoon & Gorham
45
Providence, R.I.
Huntoon & Gorham
A business card for Slaymaker, Barry and Company (later Slaymaker Lock Company). Printed by D. B. Landis of Pluck Print, probably sometime in the 1890s.
Slaymaker, Barry & Co.
Manufacturers of Shelf Hardware
Self Locking Scandinavian Pad-Locks
Lancaster, Pa.
John J. Kane
"Rice & Robinson Soap Co., Petroleum Soaps. Presented by O. S. Rice. E. S. Rice, president. R. L. Rice, v, pres't & gen'l mgr. J. C. Robinson, sec'y. E. H. Beardsley, treas. Trademark. Drake. First oil well, 1859. Titusville, Pa. G. H. Dunston, Buffalo, N.Y. Over."
The Drake Well Museum near Titusville, Pennsylvania, includes a replica of the historic Drake Oil Well, which is featured in the illustration on this card.
Card created for the Hero Arts "unexpected" challenge and based off of Friday's colors here.
I printed out the digital tree over my embossed raindrop background. I like how the printer ink didn't set over the embossing & gives the impression of snow falling. I enlarged the tree to run off the edges & color overlayed the tree to match the green & purple in Friday's color combo. I also added a dropshadow to give the tree dimension. TFL!
Materials used:
Stamps: Hero Arts CL270 Sky's the Limit (star), CL343 Holiday Sayings & S5101 Raindrop Background
Digital Kit: Hero Arts Scribble Trees
Ink: Memories Black
Patterned paper: Basic Grey
Cardstock: Hero Arts Lagoon Notecard
Ribbon: reasonableribbon.com
Jewels: Hero Arts & Basic Grey
Other: chipboard tag, Ranger Distress Stickles (crystal), Spellbinder's Nestabilities Label One & Cuttlebug
Taken from atop the bridge that crosses over the entire park, on a sunny morning.
PENTAX／ PENTAX K-x ／1／60 sec at - f./6.3 - 27 mm - ISO 100 - Spot Metering.
The Exe Estuary at 'Cockwood corner', Dawlish Warren, Devon, England, this morning.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
This part of the nature reserve adjoins a golf course and is private, but we are fortunate to have access for the monthly Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) high tide count which is carried out across wetlands in the UK. The Exe Estuary is important for wintering wildfowl and waders and has a number of designations: Dawlish Warren itself is a National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), as is most of the estuary as well, as well as a Ramsar site and Special Protection Area.
See my other Cockwood corner photos.
"'No thanks,' said Banks, I want Cruikshank Delicious Apple Butter. Cruikshank Bros. Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A. Cubro Apple Butter. Net weight 2 lbs. avoir. H. Gamse & Bro. Litho., Balto., Md."
"We Bought 7th War Loan. W.F.C. M-39, Japs-Olson Co., Mpls., 3,3000,000, 3-10-45."
A small sign or label distributed during World War II to those who purchased U.S. Savings bonds (war bonds) as part of the Seventh War Loan Drive that was held during May and June 1945.
Most Holy Trinity Chruch, taken from North Orchard Street in Wallingford. It was during a lovely sunrise on Sunday, January 25, 2015. And the sky was just right. I used ISO 800, because of it being a hand held shot, and was able to use 1/60 sec. exposure, keeping very still.
January 25, 2015 / 7 10 12 a.m. - PENTAX K-x 52 mm 1-60 sec at f /4.5 ISO 800
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows), Center-weighted average metering.
187/365 Days Project.
Frederick H. Stowe is listed as a "stove manufacturer" ("founder" is someone who owns or operates a foundry) in the Troy, New York, city directory for 1882, but the Troy directory for 1883 indicates that he "removed to Albany." After moving, he went into business with William F. Burden and operated a stove foundry in Albany under the name of Burden & Stowe from 1883 to 1887.
Frederick H. Stowe, Stove Founder
Manufacturer of ranges, cook and parlor stoves, sinks, hollow ware, &c. Troy, N.Y.
Salesroom, corner of Paine and Hamilton Streets, Green Island.
Presented by ________.
Cohoes horse cars run within one block of the door.
A late Cliché for this week. I've been starting to get into the holiday spirit now that I don't have to worry about lesson plans for a least a week although I still have plenty of papers for grading. (Maybe Santa will come and take care of that for me. What a Merry Christmas that would be!)
Clichés: Christmas, bokeh, holidays
HCS, HSS
"Holcomb & Caskey. Wholesale lumber, white pine, North Carolina pine, hemlock & cypress lumber, white pine, cedar and cypress shingles. Office, 18 Broadway, New York. Brooks Bank Note Co., Boston."
Despite Holcomb & Caskey's impressive business card, the company filed for bankruptcy in 1911 after a little more than five years in business. A notice published in Hardwood Record, a lumber industry magazine, on May 25, 1911, p. 79, announced the demise of the company:
"The Holcomb & Caskey Lumber Company, 940 Broadway, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The nominal assets are $12,559 and liabilities $40,712. The company was incorporated in December, 1905, with a capital of $50,000. Richard E. Holcomb is president and Clayton R. Caskey vice-president. Mr. Caskey has organized the Clayton R. Caskey Lumber Company, taking over the headquarters of the old concern and will in the future conduct a general wholesale business on his own account."
John Matthes (1834-1894) was the proprietor of American House, a hotel in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. It's likely that this business card dates to around 1864, when Matthes ran a newspaper ad for American House. A later advertisement indicates that he was operating a wine and liquor store by 1873 (see below for the ads).
American House
Lebanon, Pa.
Market Street, half-square south of Market House and one and a half squares from Court House.
John Matthes, prop'r.
The table is supplied with the best of edibles. The bar with the choicest of liquors.
Extensive new stabling attached to the house.
Handwritten name and year on the other side of the card: "Allen Longenecker, 1864."
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Advertisement printed in the Lebanon Advertiser (Lebanon, Pa.), July 20, 1864, p. 4:
AMERICAN HOUSE,
Market Street, Lebanon,
JOHN MATTHES,
Proprietor.
The proprietor of this old established and popular HOTEL would respectfully inform the public that it will be conducted at all times to the comfort and convenience of its guests. It has been thoroughly refitted and renovated, and no pains will be spared to make the Table and the Bar, at all times, equal to any in the county.
The STABLING and Yard are superior too, and more extensive, than any other in Lebanon. A new SHED is also in the course of erection, which will be completed in a short time. The patronage of the Farmers and the Traveling public generally is respectfully solicited.
PLACE--West side of Market street, and half a square south from the Market House.
JOHN MATTHES.
Lebanon, April 6, 1864.
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Advertisement in the Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, Pa.), Jan. 9, 1873, p. 4:
"John Matthes' Wholesale and Retail Wine & Liquor Store, No. 33 North 8th Street, Lebanon, Pa."
"The Bessemer. Manufactured by J. Van Wormer & Co., Albany, N.Y. For sale by W. A. Tritle, Waynesboro, Pa. Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, Lith., 21-25 Warren St., N.Y."
A trade card or leaflet cover for The Bessemer, a cook stove.
Jardin des Tuileries 30/09/2015 18h29
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ParisPeople (more candid and non-candid street shots of people made in Paris)
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[I hope to be taking photos again very soon!]
This is the front of a Victorian-era trade card advertising a New York store (for the other side, see Christmas Greeting, Edward Ridley & Sons Department Store, New York City, 1880).
I'm not sure why this wide-eyed little girl is taking all those toys with her out into the snow. She's dressed for the winter weather, however, and is even holding her hands—and her doll—in a muff to keep them warm.
A very cool old Chevrolet from the 1960s. Photo taken at South Meriden Car Show in September of 2014. There were a lot of cool looking vehicles to look at during this show. I didn't attent as many as I wanted to this season. And thaking these types of images is my favorite type of photography. But I have a lot of old files from this show that I never developed or posted yet.
September 14, 2014 - PENTAX K-x- smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL / 1-51-34 p.m. / - 1/60 sec at f - 4.0 - ISO 100 - Normal- 23 mm-(34 mm).
Littlefield & Hosmer
Dealers in foreign and domestic fruits, butter, eggs, beans, &c.
Oranges, lemons, bananas, and apples a specialty.
Country produce sold on commission.
No. 9 North Market Street, Boston.
W. E. Littlefield, Chas. B. Hosmer.
A book about the Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Boston (1885), p. 203, provides a history of this business, which operated under the name of Littlefield & Hosmer beginning in 1881:
Littlefield & Hosmer, Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits, No. 9 North Market Street. — The business conducted by this firm was established in 1866, and during the nineteen years of its career it has enjoyed a large measure of success. It was founded under the firm style of Littlefield & Enslin, and it was conducted under this title for fifteen years. On the retirement of Mr. Enslin, however, in 1881, he was succeeded by Mr. Charles R. Hosmer, and the style of the house was then changed to its present one of Littlefield & Hosmer. The firm occupy the basement floor, which is 20x40 feet in dimensions, and this is stocked with very choice selections of foreign and domestic fruits of every description. The firm makes a specialty of oranges, lemons, bananas, and apples, the former of which are shipped to them from the most celebrated producing districts of Jamaica, Central America, Florida, etc., and in these classes of fruits they conduct a good trade. They sell on commission all kinds of fruit, and prompt sales and liberal advances are made if required. All foreign fruits and vegetables are procured direct from the ship at their ultimate points of destination. The house enjoys a large city and suburban trade. The individual members of the firm are Mr. W. E. Littlefield and Mr. Charles B. Hosmer, both of whom were born in Maine, the former in 1837 and the latter in 1840.
The illustration used for this elaborate business card also appears on three other items in a collection of G. C. Aschbach & Company ephemera on Wikipedia Commons. One is a similar card dated 1904, another is a letterhead that also bears a date in 1904, and the third is an envelope postmarked in 1908.
As the card indicates, Albert J. Yeager (1856-1901) was a "collector" (of rents or other payments due) for the business. "He was a collector for G. C. Aschbach, the music dealer, the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company, and other organizations, and was also a collector of delinquent taxes" (Allentown Leader, Allentown, Pa., Dec. 24, 1901, p. 6).
Tragically, Albert and his wife, Leida G. Yeager (1858-1902), both died following a streetcar accident: "Albert J. Yeager was killed in an electric railway accident on the Lehigh Mountain on Dec. 23, 1901. His wife, nee Leida Cooper, died Jan. 20, 1902, from the result of injuries received in the same accident" (see History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families, 1914, vol. 3, p. 1441; an earlier article, "Fatal Trolley Slide Down Lehigh Mountain," in the Allentown Leader, Dec. 24, 1901, p. 1, provides additional horrific details about the accident).
G. C. Aschbach
Importer of and wholesale and retail dealer in pianos and organs, and all kinds of musical merchandise. 539 Hamilton St., Allentown, Pa.
Largest and oldest music house in the Lehigh Valley.
Fine music boxes, violins, guitars, band instruments and strings, sheet music and books, &c &c.
Albert J. Yeager, collector.
Theo. Leonhardt & Son, Phila.
On building facade: G. C. Aschbach, music dealer, 1891. Pianos and organs.
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We took a drive around the block, near the Beach House. And I got some pictures of some other lovely homes in the area. This was taken on Uncas Rd.
July 13, 2014 / 8:05:32 a.m. / 57 mm - 1-400 sec - at f./4.5 - ISO 100 - Adobe Photoshop - Lightroom 5.7 - (Windows) - PENTAX K-x / PENTAX Spot Metering.
234/365 Days Project.
"Santa Claus Soap, best for the laundry. Made only by the N. K. Fairbank Company, Chicago, St. Louis, New York. Carqueville, Chicago. Fairbank's Santa Claus Soap."
I went out last August, and took pictures of this Classic, old, Buick Skylark, that was sitting with a "For Sale" sign on it. It was a very rainy day, so I beefed up the image in Topaz Adjeust and some other effects before posting in B & W.
August 22, 2014 / 6:15:32 a.m. / 27 mm - 1-50 sec - ƒ/3.5 - ISO 320 - Adobe Photoshop - Lightroom 5.7 (Windows) - PENTAX K-x - PENTAX Center-weighted average metering.
203/365 Days Project.
Snow FalSnow Falling on a February Morning / New Englandling on Westfield Rd. in Meriden. Taken at 6:30 a.m., with my Pentax K-x, hand held at 1/3 sec. Brightened up in Photoshop and Lightroom and turned to B & W.
February 05, 2015 / 6:28:52 a.m. / 46 mm - 0.3 sec - ƒ/4.0 - ISO 1250 - Adobe Photoshop - Lightroom 5.7 (Windows) - PENTAX K-x - PENTAX Center-weighted average metering.
199/365 Days Project.
I was just noticing how much different the gas prices are this June, compared to last year at this time. We were paying a lot more last year. They still aren't cheap, by any means, but at least they aren't what they were a year ago.
Gas Prices June 27, 2014 - PENTAX K-x - smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL - / 4:59:57 a.m. /
270/365 Days Project.
For the betterment and enjoyment of the sport of riding motorcycles since 1924. And still riding!
Host to the annual High Sierras Overniter, The Sonora Pass Ride and The Hare and Hound Run (which began in the 1940's and evolved into the Hoot Owl Poker Run).
Stockton, CA
This image came out looking pretty nice, compared to the original file, after using Topaz Simplify to give it some oil painting features and fix the white balance. The shot was taken early in the morning, around 7a.m.
February 24, 2015 - PENTAX K-x-TAMRON-FA 28-80mm F3.5-5.6 AL / 7:10:37 a.m. / 1/100 sec at f - 8.0 - ISO 320 - Aperture priority - 45 mm - (67 mm).
A Cold Saturday in January. After clearing the driveway, I was able to make it out of the neighborhood, and go to the gas station to get my dad some newspapers. Since they weren't delivered to the house because of the Snowstorm. I took this pic as I was driving down Reynolds Dr. towards Westfield Rd.
This is when I first got my Sweet new Pentax DSLR, oh my.
I was finally able to have interchangeable lenses and shoot RAW format images. Yikes.
January 24, 2015 / 9:21:23 a.m. / 39 mm - 1-80 sec - at ƒ/5.6 - ISO 100 - Adobe Photoshop - Lightroom 5.4 (Windows) PENTAX K-x PENTAX Center-weighted average metering.
It was 2 o'clock in the afternoon in September of 2014, as I attended South Meriden's First Annual Car Show. On this Sunday, I was lucky enough to have nice weather and bright sunshine, to get some really good images of these Classic Cars. I love shooting car shows, because the owners and spectators are so friendly and are willing to strike up a conversation about the car that they brought to the event. This Mustang looks to be a 71-72 model. Maybe a Mach-1, or Boss, looking at the hood. But I love these old cars cause I've driven so many of them when I was younger and in High School. They were much more fun to drive than any of today's offerings, and had tons of power to them.
September 14, 2014 - PENTAX K-x- smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL - 14-00-38 - 1-200 sec at f - 5.0 - ISO 100 - Normal- 18 mm- 27 mm.
SAMSUNG CELL Shot of Casa Mia on the Green in Rocky Hill, CT
February 13, 2015 / 1:57:33 p.m. / 34 mm 1-2000 sec at f - 2.6 ISO 50 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Windows) SPH-D700 SAMSUNG Spot Metering
Playing around with my Tamron 28-80 mm Lens, that I haven't mounted in a while. I kind of like the results that I'm getting now from it, now that I'm more familiar with my Camera Body, and it's controls. I no longer suffer from the focusing problems I was running into when I first got this gear. The K-x is tricky to auto focus in the first place, because it doesn't show you, in the viewfinder, which focus point it decided on using. So I set the camera to use a manual focus point that I usually use directly in the middle of the frame, and then lock in, and re frame my shot. This lens is actually pretty sharp at smaller aperture values.
February 21, 2015 / 12:03:55 p.m. / 51 mm - 1-80 sec at ƒ/9.0 - ISO 160 - Adobe Photoshop - Lightroom 5.7 (Windows) - PENTAX K-x / PENTAX Center-weighted average metering
207/365 Days Project.