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Wooden planks served as the platform for Oregon Gov. George Chamberlain when he paid a visit to Klamath Falls – an occasion worthy of putting on a picture post card. With the county's 1888 courthouse as a backdrop, Chamberlain spoke to a crowd gathered on the courthouse lawn. No date was noted for this photo. Chamberlain served as Oregon governor from 1903 to 1909. The only other person museum staff can identify in this photo is Capt. O.C. Applegate, seen second from left from the governor.
With less of an on shore wind, the Gulf of Mexico was calmer and there were clouds which always add drama to sunset photography.
The sunset tonight featured lots of blue and red tones.
Anna Maria Island, FL
October 18, 2010
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From the Graybill post card collection.
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Holmes County Ohio Real Photo Post Card. Postmarked MILLERSBURG, OHIO, SEP 25, 1911. Correspondence reads "Cant come to Akron but will be at Canton O. at Barnett Hotel When are you coming to Canton, Chaz" Sent to Miss May Van Hyning, Box 385, Akron, Ohio. The building in the background is the Holmes County Courthouse. Brooks and Kathleen Harris in their book "Holmes County, Ohio, History in Photo Postcards" identify the driver as C. C. Geib. See back at www.flickr.com/photos/darwinboyd/31652902787/
Trolleyville, USA.
7100 Columbus Road, State Route 252, Ormstead Falls, Ohio, near Gate #9 Ohio Turnpike. USA
From the Graybill post card collection.
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The Eagle Ridge Tavern, with its stunning view of Upper Klamath Lake and the Cascade Mountain Range, was one of Klamath County's most popular resorts in the early 1900s. This 1911 photo by C.R. Miller shows the Mountain Lakes area in the background at right. The Winema steamboat made runs from Klamath Falls to Eagle Ridge and on to Odessa and Rocky Point. Travel by auto to Eagle Ridge was not practical in those days. The tavern was destroyed by fire in 1932. Some of the building's foundation stones can still be seen, but are hard to find in the brush that has taken over the site.
This home on the east bank of Link River was built for Evan R. Reames, one of Linkville's early leading businessmen. Reames' principal business partner was Alex Martin, with whom he owned a 2,000-acre ranch south and east of town. A portion of the ranch eventually became Reames Golf & Country Club. Reames and Martin also operated a general store, and were partners in Klamath County's first bank. This elegant home was torn down after the city acquired the site to develop a municipal water system.
Description on front of card: Columbus, Ohio's State Capitol from the Air
No. in Series: A-22 / OB-H1956
Description on back of card:
Business section and civic center showing U.S. Post Office, Municipal Buildings, A.I.U. Citadel and State Office Building on Marconi Boulevard.
Recovered Written Date: April 8, 1945
There appears to have been a message at one time and it has since been erased.
Recovered Message:
April 8, 1945
View on post card is of ? ? small building in front of A.I.U. Citadel is the City Hall which I visited. There is a ?bby show ???
Scioto River ??? River ??? River ??? River ??? O[lentangy?] River ????
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Era: Linen Era
Condition: Used. Message erased before card was received. Writing on the back.
Publisher: W.E. Ayres, 1049 Livingston Ave., Columbus, Ohio | Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" postcard by Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photo by: Butler Airphotos, Inc.
Publisher Note:
Butler Airphotos, Inc. was established in 1938 by Clyde Butler, Howard Alsop, and Margaret Butler.
W.E. Ayres had a variety store at 1047-1049 Livingston Avenue in Columbus, Ohio.
Curt Teich emigrated to Chicago in 1895. He had worked as a lithographer in Lobenstein, Germany.
He founded the Curt Teich Company in 1898, concentrating on newspaper and magazine printing. He was an early publisher of postcards, but he didn't begin printing them himself until 1908.
According to MetroPostcard.com, "As his competition dwindled, his sales expanded and his American factories would eventually turn out more postcards than any other in the United States."
The company was best known for its wide range of advertising and postcards of North America. By the 1920s, it was producing so many postcards with borders that they became recognized as a type dubbed "White Border Cards," creating an "era."
Curt Teich started using offset presses in 1907, but it took a number of years before he had offset presses made to his satisfaction and many more years for him to perfect the method.
His innovations in this printing technique directly led to the production of what we now call "linens" by the early 1930s.
The company aided the war effort during the second world war by also printing many military maps.
Curt Teich eventually turned management of the company over to his son, but he remained active in company operations throughout its history.
Curt Teich died in 1974 and the family business was sold to Regensteiner Publishers who continued to print postcards at the Chicago plant until 1978 when the rights to the company name and processes were sold to the Irish company, John Hinde Ltd. Their California subsidiary now prints postcards under the name John Hinde Curteich, Inc.
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Two couples enjoy an outing on Lake Ewauna during a time when boats were an important mode of transportation in the Klamath Basin. The steamer Klamath can be seen docked in the background, and a smaller steam-powered launch can be seen to the right in the background. This photo was probably taken around 1908. People rarely smiled for photos at this point in history, but these couples were clearly having a lot of fun.
From the Graybill post card collection.
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From 1977, this is a dealer post card sent out to customers from the dealer's service department. This example is from Bob Brown Oldsmobile in Portland, OR.
Manufactured by collaboration with Houghtons Ltd., London, UK and G.Gennert, New-York, USA, London Made
Model: c.1910, (produced between 1909-1915 ?)
There is a small round plate on the right side of the camera: Houghtons Ltd. London, G.Gennert New-York, London Made and Ensign logo
Folder bed film camera, film:122 roll-film "Post-card", picture size: 8.25x13.9cm (3.1/4''x5.1/2'') , (I suspect that this camera is a Dual concept one and maybe it uses plate film: 9x14 cm, but plate holder as a camera back cover is lost)
Lens: : Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. Rapid Rectilinear, (Engravings around the lens), focal length and aperture numbers are not stamped on the lens,
must be f/6.3 as to aperture scale, filter slip-on, serial no.none
Aperture: f/6.3-f/45 setting: lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel
Focusing: bellows focusing via an index pointer; distance scale on the left of the bed plate, sliding towards the index F P A, just behind it, (this feature must be for adjusting focusing range of distance scale for plate and roll-film)
Focus range: 5-25 feet (1.5-7.6 m) +inf
Shutter: Engraving on the dial: General, and above the aperture scale IIFX Shutters>, this is a simple, very old type leaf shutter, speeds: 1/5-1/100, +T& B
setting : dial on top of the lens-shutter barrel
Cocking lever and Shutter release: same lever, on the lens-shutter barrel, for speeds press once the lever then the shutter cocks, opens and closes
Viewfinder: Brilliant waist level finder, turning on its own axis for landscape pictures, on the top left of the lens standard, there are clues on the finder and lens standard that there were spirit level and a wire sports finder, (lost !)
Winding lever: on the right side of the camera
Bellows: single-extension, slides vertically by a latch on the lens standard for parallax correction,
Bellows opening: open the front cover by pressing the knob on upper right side of the camera (under the leatherette), then pull-out the bellows by handles on front of it engaging on the rails of bed plate until it clicks on the inf. on the distance scale, unlock for focusing or closing by small silver lever on the left side of the lens standard
Camera leg: on the front cover, removable, when closing the camera, it can be stored in the bed plate by special clamps
Flash PC socket: none
Self-timer: none
Back cover: Removable, opens by a latch on top of the camera, w/ red window
Film loading: by special spool loosening mechanisms, there is a wooden take up spool,
3.1/4'' in length
There is a sticker inside of the back cover: "Post Card "Ensign", Trade Mark "Ensign", Daylight Loading, Use the British Made "Ensign" Roll Films, They are Fastest and the Best, The 3.1/4'' A.Spool Fits This Camera, and Ensign Logo"
Tripod socket: two, 1/4'', on the right side and front cover
Lugs for hand strap
Body: metal, Weight: 1174g, Dimensions:12x22x24cm
serial no. 8595 (on the backside of the lens standard)
I named this camera as to the sticker and small round plate on it.
There is almost no info abut this camera in the Internet and McKeown's.
Matt Denton says:
"Patent June 14, 1910" (1914?)
and Canemah Studio, a member of Flickr, says in the description of his camera's photo:
"It was manufactured with a collaboration between the Houghton Ltd. of London and Gennert company of New York in the early 1900's, probably between 1911-1915. It's a very uncommon camera and information on this particular model has been difficult to find. The attention to detail is fantastic and the workmanship of British cameras is quite remarkable and beautiful."
A brief history about Houghtons in pre-WW1 era:
Haughtons dates back to 1814 as a glass seller. Then they began to distribute the Daguerreotype requzites. After 1904 the firm produced a vast range of cameras and absorbed some small camera makers. From 1900 until around 1909, a large number of Houghtons' cameras were German imports, primarily Dr.Krugener.
There are many similarities between this camera and some Dr.Krugener models. So, it could be that my camera is a kind of copy of Krugeners.
More info and most similar ones in the internet: Rubylane, houghtonproducts,
This two-story log cabin was built near Rocky Point around 1899 by C. Grant Crary. The cabin was originally known as the Pelican Bay Resort. It was purchased in 1906 by E.H. Harriman, president of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. The structure was originally constructed near the lakeshore, but at some point was moved upslope. It was destroyed by fire some years later.
From the Graybill post card collection.
A card in a series of national views from the Chicago-based Acmegraph Company which depicts Lynchburg landmarks circa 1913. See Acmegraph Co. Postcards of Lynchburg, Virginia for more information.
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From the Jones Memorial Library post card collection. This card is embossed with the logo of A.H. Plecker's studio in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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Greetings from Anna Maria Island, FL! We were nervous that the sunset was going to be a bust but the sky gods delivered a stunner!
Anna Maria Island | Florida | Gulf of Mexico
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A horse-drawn float presented by the Klamath County Real Estate Dealers Association makes its way down Main Street during a parade in the early 1900s. Along with the trolley rails in the street, the names of businesses on the float helps with dating this image at around 1908. The list included Mason Abstracts, Shepherd Bros. Abstracts, Wilber White Realty Co., and C.P. Gregory Real Estate, and Tom Stephens Real Estate.
The steamer Klamath is seen docked at Klamath Falls, where it regularly delivered freight and passengers for a few years until the arrival of the railroad in 1909. This dock was located about where George Nurse Way leads from Main Street into Veterans Park today. A notation on the photo indicates the boat had a displacement of 69 tons, and a top speed of 12 mph. A close look at this photo shows a barge behind the Klamath, and at the far right edge a portion of the smaller steamboat Canby can be seen.
The Virginia Episcopal School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the Graybill post card collection.
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Odessa Lodge, located about 20 miles northwest of Klamath Falls near Rocky Point, was a popular gathering spot in the early 1900s for tourists and local excursionists traveling by steamboat from town. Wood planks gave visitors a way to walk from the boat landing to the lodge without sinking in the mud. Mount Harriman is seen in the background. The site later became headquarters for the Wampler Ranch.
I came by these wonderful old B & W photos by way of my aunt. She was at a Scrap Booking convention/ retreat in the Red Woods of northern Calif. This woman sitting at the same table as my aunt, threw out three old photo albums full of family photos & post cards from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. The lady said the albums once belonged to her mother in law and since she didn't know the people in the photos she tossed the albums in the trash. My aunt later went dumpster diving and gave me one album and she kept the other two.
You don't have to know the people to enjoy the photos. Well just like the old sayings go, "A picture is worth a 1000 words", or "One man's trash is another man's treasure"
Hey I could use a little help. If you recognize people or places or vehicles please speak up, add your comments please.
This was taken at the 2012 Cable Airport Air Show. Just for fun and to be different I wanted to see if it would look good as a post card.
I took this 6" frame apart to clean and fix, and found this image was an old post card. The glass was painted black and gold from the back. Under the postcard was the embroidery on the next photo.
The Algoma Lumber Co. mill was located about seven miles north of Klamath Falls, along the east shore of Upper Klamath Lake, and immediately adjacent to the Southern Pacific Railroad. This undated photo was probably taken a few years after the mill opened in 1914. In this view, smoke is seen rising from the mill's slab burner (at right-center) before the wigwam tower had been built. The concrete base of the burner can still be seen today at the site.
The Crisler and Stilts block (or building) at the northwest corner of Seventh and Main streets in Klamath Falls is shown in this undated photo – probably taken around 1915. C.B. Crisler was a prominent local businessman in the early 1900s, and served as mayor of the city. Little is known of Mr. Stilts, except that he was a sometime partner in business with Crisler.
The building housed Underwood's Pharmacy and H.J. Winters Jewelry on the ground floor.
Information previously posted here wrongly indicated this building was razed to make way for the Pine Tree Theater. The building, in fact, still stands.
Guests stayed in tents at Spink's Resort on Spring Creek in the early 1900s.
R.C. Spink, who came to Klamath County in the late 1800s, focused his business interests in the Chiloquin area. At one time he proposed supplying municipal drinking water to the city of Klamath Falls through a pipeline from Spring Creek. The city opted to drill wells instead. A community park on the west side of Chiloquin is named for Spink.