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Title: "Map of Manitoba, published by authority of the Provincial Government, March 1893". This very scarce folded map measures approx. 24" x 24" and shows every section (square mile unit) of land in the province. Compared to the Rand McNally map of approximately a decade earlier, the Provincial map shows the province with more or less its modern muncipal organization into Rural Municipalities. Although the main map does not make a point of including the disputed part of Northwestern Ontario, it does contain an inset map (not shown) showing Manitoba's position in the North American continent in which a sizeable region north of the Winnipeg and English Rivers (i.e. not including southerly areas such as Rat Portage/Kenora) and extending several hundred miles into what is now Northwestern Ontario is clearly labelled "Manitoba".
This copy of the map folds and includes a glued-on title page that indicates that it was intended for distribution at the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, Illinois.
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Jim Moore presented a short "film" about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland at the weekend shipwreck festival in Welland, Ontario. Moore points out that percentage of deaths in the loss of the Empress is greater than was the case in the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.
The Empress sunk in 11-minutes after a collision on the St Lawrence River. Of the 1,477 persons on board the ship, 1,012 died within sight of shore. The Titanic, which sank in just over two hours after hitting an iceberg had an estimated 2,224 people on board, of whom 1,514 died in the accident.
The Titanic sank April 15, 1912. The Empress sank May 24, 1914. Ian Kinder, an associate of Mr Moore's, has published a book about the Empress of Ireland and her sister ship the Empress of Britain. A Tale of Two Sisters was released just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Empress sinking.
Picture taken at the 20th Annual Niagara Divers' Association's SHIPWRECK festival. Welland, Ontario.
Encyclopedia of Home Decorating,1954. The photos in the book are from the mid-40s and come from a series of decorating booklets.
Published by Book Production Industries, Written by Helen Koues. Containing material from home decorating booklets previously published by Book Production Industries, Inc. 1945, 1946, and 1947.
Please check out some of my images from my trip to Mexico last year that are now published on this great website:
www.sacred-destinations.com/mexico/chichen-itza.htm
You can see all of my images from Mexico here: www.flickr.com/photos/ciaochessa/sets/72157594395460626/
The creator of the website, Holly, is a fellow flickrer. You can check out her stream here:
www.flickr.com/photos/sacred_destinations/
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 9th of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
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Gli Years & Years, giovane trio dalle sonorità pop, electro e dance proveniente da Londra, dopo aver calcato i palchi dei maggiori festival europei, arrivano, in concerto in Italia per la prima volta. L’appuntamento imperdibile è fissato per il 10 marzo 2016 al Fabrique di Milano.
Il trio riesce a catturare l’attenzione di tutti sin da subito. A gennaio 2015, Katy Perry twitta una loro canzone e li rende istantaneamente famosi sui social network. Da quel momento inizia il regno degli Years & Years che spopolano in tutte le radio del mondo con la loro King. Il singolo viene certificato platino in Italia, registrando più di 105 milioni di visualizzazioni su YouTube e anticipando l’uscita di Communion, album di debutto degli Years & Years.
Il trio vince anche il prestigioso BBC Sound 2015 (vinto lo scorso anno da Sam Smith e negli anni precedenti da Mika, Adele e Ellie Goulding) e viene nominato ai Brit Awards.
La loro musica può essere descritta come un cocktail ben riuscito di elettro-pop e house che ricorda gli anni Novanta. Ritmi scritti per il dancefloor in contrasto con testi malinconici che parlano di storie d’amore finite male. Al tutto si aggiunge uno stile impeccabile ed un linguaggio attuale sui social network. Insomma la miscela perfetta per il successo mondiale.
Olly Alexander (voce e piano), Mikey Goldsworthy (basso) e Emre Turkmen (synths, beats) formano gli Years & Years nel 2010. Da poco trasferitosi dall’Australia, Goldworthy conosce Turkmen online grazie ad annuncio. Dopo poco tempo, Alexander si unisce alla band diventando la voce principale del gruppo.
Woo hoo! Just got a few copies of My Midwest Magazine (Midwest Airlines pubication) created by Ink Publishing out of Brooklyn NY. The photo I took of the Art Museum and posted on flickr last fall was found by them via TAGS. I was very surprised when they contacted me and asked permission and how much I would sell them usage of the photo for. So after a bit of conversation we came upon a fair price for publishing my photo. I have had photos published in the Press a number of times but I found that this magazine has a million circulation.
I feel like Grover on Sesame Street. "I am so excited!"
Anyways, back to the viewfinder.
And use your TAGS!
Strobist lighting info: SB800 as key behind white shoot-through umbrella to camera right at 1/4 power (set to have no glare on photo in background,) SB800 to camera left snooted at 1/64th power for fill and highlight. Both on Smith-Victor RS-8 Raven stands. Fired with ebay triggers and camera fired remotely with Nikon ML-L3 ir.
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-Dan
My photo of the sausage races in Milwaukee was published by Milwaukee Public Radio station WUWM. The photo is in the middle. The original photo can be seen here:
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Lo sposalizio è stato il corpo e il pane della comunità. Il mattone fondante della comunità. Veniva consumato con il cibo e con la musica. Una specie di eucarestia in cui la nuova coppia veniva ingerita dalla comunità che gli si stringeva intorno avvolgendola di stelle filanti nell’ultimo, infinito ballo dei “ziti” (che così si chiamano tanto gli sposi quanto la pasta). La musica aumentava vorticosamente di ritmo fino ad assorbire la coppia che finiva per girare avvolta come uno spiedo in una girandola colorata di fili di carta. A quel punto era digerita e pronta per generare e rinnovare la comunità. Questa musica che accompagnava il rito era musica umile, da ballo, adatta ad alleggerire le cannazze di maccheroni e a “sponzare” le camicie bianche, che finivano madide e inzuppate, come i cristiani che le indossavano. Un repertorio di mazurke, polke, valzer, passo doppio, tango, tarantella, quadriglia e fox trot, che era in fondo comune nell’Italia degli anni ‘50, ‘60, e che si è codificato come una specie di classico del genere in un periodo nel quale lo “sposalizio” è stato la principale occasione di musica, incontro e ballo. Poi le tastiere elettroniche hanno preso il sopravvento e gli sposalizi sono diventati matrimoni. L’aria condizionata è entrata in un altro genere di ristorazioni in cui la musica è diventata una specie di dessert più parente del liscio che dell’epoca mitica dei mantici, dei violini e delle farfisa.
A Calitri, in alta Irpinia, negli anni in cui è esistita una comunità, che è poi finita frantumata nelle migrazioni che sono state il sangue vivo dello sviluppo, questa comunità si è rinnovata e celebrata in un luogo cardine del paese: la “casa dell’Eca”. Nei racconti della mia infanzia si è trasformata in “casa dell’Eco”. La casa dove nasceva l’eco. Eco della musica, degli schiamazzi, delle burle, delle feste, luogo del pantheon dei personaggi mitici che fanno una comunità in cui si viene ribattezzati e realmente ri-conosciuti, nel soprannome che la comunità stessa impone, in luogo della chiesa. Da qualche decennio la casa dell’Eco tace, e l’unico eco che si spande è quello dei racconti. Se ci si appendessero dentro le fotografie di tutte le coppie sarebbe un sacrario di guerra. Giovani con la divisa nuziale che andavano ad affrontare, sparacchiando, la vita, dopo la sparecchiatura dei tavoli della casa dell’Eca.
Qualche anno fa, un gruppo di anziani suonatori di quell’epoca aurea non priva di miseria, ha preso l’abitudine di ritrovarsi davanti alla posta nel pomeriggio assolato. Avevano l’aria di vecchi pistoleri in paglietta. A domandargli cosa facessero appostati davanti a quell’ufficio postale, rispondevano che montavano la guardia alla posta, per controllare l’arrivo della pensione. Quando l’assegno arrivava, sollevati tiravano fuori gli strumenti dalle custodie e si facevano una suonata. Il loro repertorio fa alzare i piedi e la polvere e fa mettere a ammollo le camicie sui pantaloni. Ci ricorda cose semplici e durature. Lo eseguono impassibili e solenni, dall’alto del migliaio di sposalizi in cui hanno sgranato i colpi. Hanno nomi da gloria nella polvere: Tottacreta, Matalena, il Cinese, Parrucca. Il più impassibile di loro non aveva nemmeno bisogno di un soprannome, tanto era lapidario il nome originale: Rocco Briuolo. Ora Rocco è andato a suonare “due Paradisi” tra i santi che ha dipinto come fossero suoi compari. Tra santo Canio e santo Liborio. Ora può, come nella vecchia canzone, dire a san Pietro guardando giù, che “il Paradiso nostro è questo qua”. E con ragione, perché la sua umanità, il suo violino e il suo pennello, hanno portato un poco di divino in noi, che l’abbiamo conosciuto. La sua “Banda della Posta” lo accompagna con la filosofia nella quale è vissuto: un lavoro ben fatto, che non si prende mai sul serio. A lui è dedicato questo disco fatto di racconti in musica, cic’ tu cic’ e bottaculo. A quadriglie, a cinquiglie, fino all’incontrè.
Banda della Posta:
Giuseppe Caputo , "Matalena" - violino
Franco Maffucci , "Parrucca"- chitarra e voce
Giuseppe Galgano, "Tottacreta"- fisarmonica
Giovanni Briuolo- chitarra , mandolino
Vincenzo Briuolo- mandolino , fisarmonica
Giovanni Buldo , "Bubù"- basso
Antonio Daniele- batteria
Crescenzo Martiniello, "Papp'lon" - organo
Gaetano Tavarone , "Nino"- chitarre
The Postcard
A Photogravure postcard that was published by Judges Ltd. of Hastings. The card was posted in Conway using a 1d. stamp on Tuesday the 3rd. August 1926. The card was sent to:
Mrs. Monk,
c/o Mrs. Austen,
52, Church Street,
Broadstairs,
Kent.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"39 Bryn Tirion Park,
Conway.
3-8-26.
I went up Snowdon
yesterday but it was
very cloudy at the top -
I only had just a glance
at the wonderful view.
Weather fine here.
Went through this pass
by armchair coach.
Hope you are well and
having a nice time.
Love,
Herbert.
p.s. I am sending a card
to Gertie."
Llanberis Pass
The Llanberis Pass is a spectacular 6-mile mountain pass in (Snowdonia) National Park, North Wales. Running between Llanberis and Pen-y-Gwryd, the narrow, winding road sits 359 meters (1,178 feet) above sea level, and is flanked by the towering Snowdon massif and the Glyderau range.
-- Hiking & The Llanberis Path: The pass serves as the gateway to Snowdon, with the famous Pen y Pass car park sitting at the summit of the pass.
While the Pen y Pass car park acts as the starting point for the Pyg and Miners' tracks, the official Llanberis Path begins directly in the village of Llanberis. It is the longest (approx. 9 miles round trip) but most gradual route up the mountain.
Parking at Pen y Pass often fills before dawn in peak season and must be pre-booked.
-- Rock Climbing: Carved by glaciers, the pass is world-renowned for traditional (trad) climbing and bouldering. The Dinas Cromlech crag features iconic routes like Cenotaph Corner and Left Wall.
-- Bouldering: The Cromlech Boulders and The Grooves Boulder offer excellent bouldering opportunities.
Due to the technical nature of these climbs, check out the UK Climbing Llanberis Pass Destination Guide for detailed routes and grade breakdowns.
-- Driving & Transport: Known as one of the best and most dramatic driving roads in the UK, the pass is celebrated for its sweeping views and steep, glacial valleys.
The A4086 through the pass is very narrow in places with passing places, and livestock (like sheep) frequently wander into the road.
To avoid traffic congestion and parking woes, it is highly recommended to use the Snowdon Sherpa Bus Service. These buses run frequently, connecting the Llanberis Park & Ride directly with Pen y Pass and surrounding villages.
A Siege in Guadalajara
So what else happened on the day that Herbert posted the card?
Well, on the 3rd. August 1926, some 400 armed Catholics barricaded themselves in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
They exchanged gunfire with federal troops until they ran out of ammunition and surrendered.
According to U.S. consular sources, 18 people were killed and 40 were wounded.
The Banning of Parades
Also on that day, Italy banned any parades, ceremonies and public demonstrations that were not authorized as "effectively useful".
A Volcano Eruption in Bali
Also on the 3rd. August 1926, the Mount Batur volcano on the island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) erupted for the first time since 1917, and destroyed the village of Karang Anyar, but the residents were able to evacuate safely.
The Pura Ulun temple, completed earlier in the year, was spared when the lava stopped at the temple gates.
Pioneering Traffice Lights
Also on that day, London's first traffic lights came into operation at 11:25 in the morning at Piccadilly Circus.
The eight signalling lights supplemented the existing group of traffic policemen in guiding drivers. According to London's Evening Express:
"Hundreds of people watched the
red and green flickers in Piccadilly
which told a dozen policemen
when to raise and drop their arms."
Tony Bennett
The day also marked the birth of Anthony Benedetto in Astoria, Queens, New York.
Anthony became the American singer Tony Bennett, known for his signature song 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco'. Tony, who was the winner of 20 Grammy Awards, died in 2023.
More on Tony below.
Ernest Willows
The 3rd. August 1926 also marked the death at the age of 40 of Ernest Willows.
Willows was a Welsh aviator, airship builder and pilot. He was killed in an accident along with four other people while taking the group aloft in a balloon.
The netting holding the basket to the rest of the balloon came loose, and Willows and his passengers fell 60 feet (18 m) to their deaths.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 16th of March 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
My "On Key Summit" photo was recently printed and published in the spring/summer edition of the German BMW Magazin. It’s nice to see it printed in such a well-designed environment. It’s also the first photo I got paid for.
Description: Program published for the 1987 Ingleside Invaders baseball team. The programs were self-produced by the team under direction of their head coach Dan Harrington, with help from assistant coaches and other community members. Mr. Harrington has given his approval to the San Francisco Public Library for these publications to be reproduced here on Flickr in digital format. Mr. Harrington has written a description of these publications and the Ingleside Invaders baseball team..
"The last of the Sandlot League teams in San Francisco is the Ingleside Invaders, the only team to sign up in 1990 for the 18-and-under division of SF Rec-Park Baseball, the direct descendent of the Sandlot League known in the 1980s as the Neighborhood League. (I don't know when the Sandlot League started, but it is thought to have its origins before 1900).
"The Invaders ball club was a successful representative of the neighborhood, with players from many public, private and parochial high schools chipping in small amounts of money (no more than $25), getting to keep full uniforms; businesses donated funds (except for the Marines who still owe me fifty bucks!) while receiving ad-space for the team's self-produced publications showing stories about "the Greater Ingleside" history and contemporary times to the rest of San Francisco. The Invaders made some life-long friendships and fielded some good baseball teams!
"My recently passed father Richard Harrington took many of the photos, while my brother Richard Jr, who passed away in 1998, compiled some stats and kept book for many of the games. The 1986 paper stock was provided by the Coca-Cola bottlers on Bayshore Blvd. and printed by the team, complete with a team picture in the relatively new light rail vehicle (LRV) "streetcar" yard off Ocean Ave.
"Ingleside finished second in 1986, 87, and 88. Ingleside was surprised in a playoff game in 1989. But it did give the best example of multiple schools represented on the same summer team and a model to use for the RBI Baseball and Softball program run independently by Dan Harrington (calling in lots of favors for help) in 1997 at Crocker-Amazon and Balboa Park, and in conjunction with City College baseball courses (John Vanoncini) and Columbia Park and San Francisco Boys and Girls Clubs from 1998 to 2010."
--Dan Harrington, May 2014
Collection: Ingleside Branch Archives
Repository: San Francisco Public Library - Ingleside Branch
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The Postcard
A postcard that was printed and published by Sheahan of Boston.
The card was posted in Peterborough, New Hampshire on Friday the 24th. December 1909 to:
Mrs. Henry Martin,
Hillsborough,
New Hampshire,
Box 45.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Merry Christmas &
Happy New Year to
you both.
M. E. Monan".
M. T. Sheahan
M. T. Sheahan of 297, Congress Street, Boston, Mass., who operated between 1903 and 1910, was a fine art printer and publisher, who in addition to producing prints created many postcards on themes of animals, humor, greetings, and mottos.
O Little Town of Bethlehem
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a Christmas carol.
Based on an 1868 text written by Phillips Brooks, the carol is popular on both sides of the Atlantic, but to different tunes.
In North America it is sung to "St. Louis" by Brooks' collaborator, Lewis Redner.
In the United Kingdom it is sung to "Forest Green", a tune collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and first published in the 1906 English Hymnal.
Jean Clemens
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 24th. December 1909 marked the death of Jean Clemens.
Born Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens on the 26th. July 1880, Jean was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain). She drowned at the age of 29 in a bathtub at Samuel's home on Christmas Eve 1909, likely due to a seizure.
-- Jean Clemens - The Early Years
Jean Clemens was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the youngest of four children born to author and humourist Mark Twain and Olivia Langdon Clemens.
According to Mark Twain's autobiography, Jean was kind-hearted and particularly fond of animals, like her mother Olivia. She founded or worked with a number of societies for the protection of animals in the various locations where she lived.
-- Jean Clemens' Epilepsy
Jean had epilepsy from the age of 15 which Twain attributed to a head injury from when she was age 8 or 9. The family spent years seeking cures in the United States and Europe. Twain also attributed her mood swings and sometimes erratic behavior to her uncontrolled epilepsy.
Jean's mother tried to include her in family life despite her illness, but Olivia died in 1904, and it was left to Twain and Jean's older sister, Clara, to help Jean to manage the difficulties which her illness caused.
Twain's secretary Isabel Lyon claimed that Jean physically attacked family maid Katy Leary on two occasions in 1906, saying that she wanted to kill her.
In her 2004 biography Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years, historian Karen Lystra questions the accuracy of Lyon's account of Jean's violent behavior, and suggests that Lyon manipulated a separation between father and daughter because Lyon hoped to marry Twain.
Jean was sent to an epilepsy colony in Katonah, New York in the fall of 1906, and despite requesting to return home, Twain refused as he doubted his ability to care for her.
Twain fired Lyon and her new husband in 1909, stating that they were guilty of embezzlement, and Jean was able to return home in the April of 1909. Jean and her father got along well, though she found him stubborn and temperamental.
-- The Death of Jean Clemens
Jean was staying at her father's home Stormfield in Redding, Connecticut in December 1909, and she had decorated the home for the upcoming Christmas holiday.
She was found dead in the bathtub on the morning of the 24th. December, likely having drowned during a seizure.
Jean Clemens was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira. Twain died four months later on the 21st. April 1910.
via Instagram ift.tt/2gQoYSO Old style climber Glen Denny photo from his Yosemite book Yosemite national park 1969 - Yvon Chouinard Published on banffcentre.ca #adventure #glendenny #yosemite #yosemitenationalpark #usa #national #park #yvon_chouinard #climb #climbing #vintage
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Opening-act dei Metallica l’8 maggio 2019 all’Ippodromo SNAI di San Siro al Milano Summer Festival, i Ghost.
Lars Ulrich ha spiegato a Kerrang! come mai i Metallica hanno scelto Ghost e Bokassa come support act per il tour europeo:
- “I Bokassa sono fottutamente grandiosi. Le canzoni che scrivono, tutta la loro energia e le vibrazioni che emanano sono una boccata d’aria fresca. Quando ho ascoltato la loro musica per la prima volta un anno fa, sono andato fuori di testa! Poterli presentare a un pubblico più vasto è una cosa super cool!”.
- “Per me, Tobias (Forge, il frontman dei Ghost) è un tipo fantastico. Mi piace molto la sua energia e stare accanto a lui. Tutti nella nostra band sono grandi fan dei Ghost e sembra che anche i nostri supporter li amino. Quando scegliamo i gruppi spalla, cerchiamo sempre persone che ci piacciono e con cui andiamo d’accordo. Non vediamo l’ora di essere in tour con loro."
I Ghost, precedentemente conosciuti come Ghost B.C. negli Stati Uniti, sono un gruppo musicale heavy metal svedese, formatosi a Linköping nel 2006.[4] Il loro primo album, Opus Eponymous, pubblicato nel 2010, è stato nominato al Grammis, contribuendo ad incrementare la loro popolarità.[5] Il secondo album Infestissumam, che è stato pubblicato nel 2013, ha vinto il Grammis Award nel 2014 per il Miglior Album Hard Rock/Metal.[6] Il terzo album in studio, Meliora, è stato pubblicato nel 2015 ed è subito diventato l'album più venduto in Svezia. Il singolo Cirice, tratto da Meliora, ha vinto il Grammy Award nel 2016 per la Migliore interpretazione metal. Nel 2018 pubblicano il loro quarto album, Prequelle.
L'immagine della band è totalmente incentrata su un look eccentrico e di ispirazione ecclesiastica, che prevede sei musicisti dal volto coperto di cui cinque denominati Nameless Ghouls, capeggiati dal cantate denominato Papa Emeritus (vero nome Tobias Forge), che ad ogni album abdica e viene sostituito, secondo la band, da un Papa più giovane.
Nel 2017 cinque membri del gruppo si sono rivelati al pubblico e quattro di loro hanno citato in causa Tobias Forge, il Papa Emeritus, svelando anche la sua identità.
Cardinal Copia (Tobias Forge) – voce
Nameless Ghoul Aether (Ben Christo) – chitarra ritmica
Nameless Ghoul Alpha (Chris Catalyst) – chitarra solista
Nameless Ghoul Water (Per "Sodomizer" Eriksson) – basso
Nameless Ghoul Air (Zac Baird) – tastiera
Nameless Ghoul Earth (Jan Vincent-Velazco) – batteria
Papa Nihil – saxophone
Every year there is a competition called Landscape photographer of the Year, Charlie White runs it and the winners get published in the annual book, this year was year 5.
Most landscapers try to play cool about it... but enter anyway. I never expected to win, my goal was always to make the book... this year I did
main picture page with text: www.flickr.com/photos/toomanytribbles/3670644245/
I'm so excited to share with you that my Gratitude Pages have been published in the April issue of Art Journaling Magazine! More at my blog.
Published in the United States of America
Repository: Penn State Special Collections, University Park, PA, USA.
Looking for this photo at the Penn State Special Collections? You’ll find it in the Reva Kern Woodcut Bookplates and Woodblocks Collection
The Postcard
A postcard published by the Western Publishing and Novelty Co. of Los Angeles, California.
The card was posted in Los Angeles on Tuesday the 31st. August 1937 to:
Miss K.J. Smith,
3, Kingsdown Avenue,
Western Avenue,
Acton,
London W.3,
England.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Aug. 31 - 1937.
I am in Los Angeles for a
holiday.
I went up to San Francisco
for a few days.
California is beautiful, and
the one place I would really
like to live in.
Here they have sea, mountains,
town/country and a wonderful
climate.
Imagine - no rain all summer.
Fruit, flowers and vegetables
are very cheap.
I have been through an orange
grove.
Love,
Dorothy".
Ruth Baldwin
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 31st. August 1937 was not a good day for Catherine Ruth Baldwin, because she died aged 32 on that day.
Ruth, who was born on the 17th. February 1905, was an English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things crowd. She was the lover of American heiress Joe Carstairs.
Biography of Ruth Baldwin
In the 1920's in London, Ruth was known for her use of heroin, cocaine and alcohol. It was said that she turned the kitchen of the house where she lived with Joe Carstairs into a bar.
Carstairs' friends later said:
"She was wild. She was such
fun. Ruth, she was really wild."
Ruth once said to Carstairs:
"The world is one's oyster
if taken at will."
Her circle of friends included painter Edward Burra and society portrait photographers Barbara Ker-Seymer and Olivia Wyndham, the last possibly her lover as well.
When Carstairs purchased her first motorboat, Baldwin gave her a Steiff doll; Carstairs named it Lord Tod Wadley. She became exceptionally attached to this doll, keeping it with her until her death. She had clothes made for it in Savile Row, and had its name placed with her own on the name plaque on the door of her London apartment at 5 Mulberry Walk ("Marion Barbara Carstairs and Lord Tod Wadley").
The Death of Ruth Baldwin
Baldwin died of a suspected overdose at a Chelsea party at the home of Gwen Farrar on the 31st. August 1937, while her friends listened to a boxing match in the next room.
A photograph of her appeared in The Times on the 2nd. September 1937 announcing her death. She had short hair and a mannish tie, probably alluding to the fact she was a lesbian; the article also said she was sharing a house with Carstairs.
Carstairs crossed the Atlantic aboard the French liner Normandie, the most expensive ship in the world, and took Baldwin's ashes along with her to Whale Cay, where she built a church to house them. When she sold Whale Cay, she removed the ashes.
When Carstairs died in Naples, Florida, in 1993 at the age of 93, Lord Tod Wadley was cremated with her. Their ashes and those of Ruth Baldwin were buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, New York.
Two of my photos of Goshen, NY have been published in Hudson Valley, Magazine. April 2012 issue.
This is one of Main Street.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 18th of March 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
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