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My recollection is my wife and I were at Euston to travel up to Wolverhampton for a funeral.
With about 20 minutes to kill at Euston the camera came out to capture these pictures.
Here we see a locomotive and coach on an opposite platform.
1910 postmarked postcard view of Michigan Street in South Bend, Indiana. A "NEW CENTER" banner is hanging above pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons and buggies. The building at the left edge of this view appears to have the name W. R. Hobbs above the store windows. Further down the street is a barely readable sign for _ANDON ____ Co. Could this have been the Landon Drug Store? There's a streetcar crossing Michigan Street in the distance near Sibley's Hardware and Stoves store. There are signs on the right for a florist (I believe), a clothier and the K of P.
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c1906 postcard view of the Highland Sanitarium in Martinsville, Indiana. Both the 1908 and the 1916 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets show the location of this sanitarium. The facility was on the west side of Main Street at the Cunningham Street intersection. The footprint of the structure remained relatively unchanged during those years. They had their own power plant with 50-foot iron chimneys for producing steam heat and powering the electric lights. Coal was probably the energy source.
This view was looking north-northeast with Main Street at the right edge of this scene. The photographer was probably standing midway between Highland and Cunningham Streets.
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c1910 postcard view of a horse-drawn buggy in front of the Masonic Temple building in Columbia City, Indiana. The building is still standing on the southwest corner at Van Buren and Line Streets. This view was looking southwest across that intersection.
The sign on the east half of the building advertised the HUDSON DRY GOODS CO. Both the 1905 and the 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Columbia City show a dry goods business on the main floor at that location (301-303 West Van Buren Street). The sign advertised BOOTS, SHOES and MILLINERY among other things. The words GRAIN, SEEDS and FURS were painted on the second-floor windows above the Hudson store, but both map sets show the Masonic Hall on the second and third floors of this eastern half of the building.
The west half of the building’s main floor (305-307 West Van Buren Street) was home to an agricultural implements business according to both Sanborn™ map sets. In this view, there was no apparent sign indicating that. A sign on the third floor above the implements business advertised the location of the I. O. R. M. (Improved Order of Red Men) Lodge. Both map sets show the west half of the third floor as “lodge rooms.”
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1914 postmarked postcard view of a large crowd gathered outside the First Methodist Church in Brazil, Indiana. The title says this group was the Men's Sunday School Bible Class. The 1902 and 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Brazil show the church on the north side of State Street between North Meridian and North Franklin streets. The church is still there.
This postcard view was looking northeast from North Meridian Street. The houses in the background were on the east side of North Franklin Street.
From the collection of Thomas Keesling.
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The white cross on a red background is the arms of the Knights Hospitaller order. I have a vague recollection from the interpretive material that it's quartered here with the arms of each of the three main contributors responsible for the construction of the English Tower, but haven't tracked those down. Anyone know what they might be, or resources for researching them?
1910 postmarked postcard view of Plymouth Street in Bremen, Indiana. The photographer was standing at the Jackson Street intersection and facing east when he took this photograph.
The SHORT ORDER LUNCH ROOM sign was for a business just outside this view. It was the second building east of Jackson Street on the north side of Plymouth Street. The signs for GERBER TAILOR, DOCTOR T. D. SMITH and the FISHER BROTHERS DRUG STORE were all mounted on posts at the curb. It is difficult to determine which building is associated with each sign. The tailor shop was probably located in the single-story frame building. The 1905 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Bremen shows a sewing machine business at that location. The 1910 map set shows a millinery shop. Presumably, Doctor Smith’s office was in the first brick building and the drug store was in the second. Both Sanborn™ map sets show an office in the first brick building and a drug store in the second. (The town did not yet have a standardized street address system when these map sets were published.)
The barber’s pole was in front of the two-story brick building. Both the 1905 and the 1910 map sets show a barbershop in the east half of that building. The 1905 map set confirms that a saloon was located next door in the two-story frame building. By 1910, that building (on the northwest corner at Center Street) had been replaced by the newer three-story Dietrich Building and the saloon was gone. The space next to the saloon had been occupied by a millinery shop in 1905. The name on the awning in this view appears to have been AMERICAN HOUSE. A clothing store was at that location when the 1910 map set was published.
Across the street, near the southwest corner of Center Street, was a sign advertising THE NEWS [STAND?]. Both the 1905 and the 1910 Sanborn map sets show a news business in the building nearest that corner. A SPARTA sign was mounted high on the brick building next door.
The STAR RESTAURANT sign advertised the business in the first frame building west of the two brick buildings in that block. A restaurant/millinery shop was in that building when the 1905 map set was prepared. The 1910 map set shows the restaurant without the shop. The sign above the doorway on the next building west included the word UNDERTAKER. Both Sanborn map sets identify this as the location of a furniture store. Furniture store proprietors were often undertakers as well. Both map sets also show a millinery shop in the building at the right edge of this postcard view.
All the vehicles in this scene were horse-drawn carriages or wagons. There were no automobiles.
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December 13, 1909, postcard view of a wrecked mail car at Lewisville, Indiana. The car, constructed of wood, belonged to the Post Office Department’s (POD) Railway Mail Service. A 1904 report from the Postmaster General identified this route on the P. C. C. & St. L. (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railway as the Springfield and Indianapolis RPO (Railway Post Office). That RPO name was apparently still in use as late as 1928. Clerks worked in these cars to sort mail while en route to the train’s destination.
The photographer captured two boys standing inside this car. It was lying on its side with the floor at the left edge of the postcard and the ceiling at the right. The boys were standing behind a wall cabinet that was still mounted on the wall. Two other similar cabinets were mounted high on the opposite wall of the car. To make it easier to visualize the layout of the car, I have created a second image with the postcard rotated so the ceiling is at the top and the floor at the bottom of the scene. I then created two close-up views using this rotated version. There is a bowler hat sitting on a pipe above the taller boy’s head. Maybe it belonged to the photographer.
Train wrecks were still common in the early years of the 20th century. For a long time, the RPO cars were made of wood and many still used gas lighting (and sometimes heating) at the end of the nineteenth century. Because the cars were dangerous, they were equipped with fire extinguishing apparatus. Although steel rail cars were beginning to appear before the turn of the twentieth century, the POD was slow to adopt the safer designs. The department reported 1,114 “whole cars” and 3,208 “apartment cars” in use in the Railway Mail Service in 1910. Of those, only 124 were steel cars and another 41 had steel undercarriages. Nearly half of these newer cars were in use on the Pennsylvania Railroad system. The following is from a 1911 Post Office Department annual report.¹
Division of Railway Mail Service
Operation
“This office has given special consideration to the question of car construction and the requirements necessary in this respect to meet modern conditions of railroading. The introduction of all-steel cars and steel underframe cars, the increase in the number of cars in the average train, and the acceleration of the speed of trains have introduced elements different from those which were known a few years ago. Wooden cars which were built a number of years ago and which were sufficiently strong and heavy when considered in connection with other cars in trains run at that time should be brought up to the highest standard of cars required at the present time, and wooden postal cars even of the best construction should be as strong as any car run in immediate connection with them. During the past year railroad companies operating wooden cars in trains made up partly of steel cars have been notified that the placing of the mail car between the engine and a steel car or between steel cars is not favored by the department and have been requested to place such cars in some other position in the trains where they will not be subject to great danger in case of accident.”
That same report stated that 27 employees were killed and 98 seriously injured in 446 railroad accidents during fiscal year 1910.
1. Report of the Postmaster General: Post Office Department Annual Reports for the Fiscal Year Ended 1910 (Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1911) pages 156-159. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=Jk88AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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210910-N-RG482-0031 (Sept. 10, 2021) BREMERTON, Wash. – A solemn share…Capt. Patrick Fitzpatrick, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton commanding officer, delivers remarks during the command’s 9/11 remembrance ceremony, Sept. 10, 2021. NMRTC Bremerton conducted several events over the course of the day in memory of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, including morning colors, a reading of events, a command-wide ceremony attended by Washington State Senator Christine Rolfes and the unveiling of a memorial plaque in the command’s tranquility garden. NMRTC Bremerton supports more than 60,000 military families in West Puget Sound, shaping military medicine through training, mentoring and research to ensure a ready medical force and operationally ready force. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Kyle Steckler)
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MEMORIES LIKE BUTTERFLIES
Your face is but a wishful thought
Though the tears are real with salty bite
As a yearning , not relinquishing aught
To soothe my soul, and smile as might
A fathers love so all consuming
Passion, pride within your heart so strong
Blissful ignorance the child, as fate was looming
Not comprehending your demise so wrong
The good are taken, or so it seems to me
Before their time by fate and circumstance
If wishes granted, what then I wonder would mine be?
Once more the child again with you, per chance
Protected by your arms around me
Games of fun and laughter played
In those childlike eyes did you see
What you meant to me, portrayed?
Memories as butterflies
Grown the boy, myself a man
But still the tears no matter how I try
To thwart the pain as best I can
Beating hearts and pulsing veins
Treasured moments in this, my journey
The legacy of your love remains
And your shining light still pulses through me
Written on September 27th 2011
Photograph taken at 17:15pm on August 26th 2011 in a property located at the intersection of Martindale Road and Welch Road near Sidney, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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LONGITUDE: W 123d 22m 25.59s
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1909 dated postcard view of a millinery shop and employees in Union City, Indiana. The caption under the smaller photograph reads, “Established 1896.” The caption under the larger photograph reads, “It’s now 1909.” The back side of the postcard included an announcement of the "Winter Millinery Opening." The business name was identified as Oak Street Millinery and Margaret Walden was identified as the proprietor. A 1908 Randolph County directory listed Miss M. B. Walden in the “Millinery” business category with a 223-225 Oak Street address. The 1911 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Union City shows a residence and a millinery business at those addresses. The location is the southwest corner at the alley between Union and Columbia streets.
Most of the following information relates to earlier unidentified millinery shops at or near the location of Ms. Walden’s business when this postcard was produced. Some of the information may be unrelated to Ms. Walden’s business. Some of the evidence may identify the location of the business in 1896.
The 1890 Sanborn™ map set shows a grocery in the building at the alley (223 Oak Street) and a millinery business next door to the west (225 Oak Street). Both buildings were two-story wood frame structures and the building at the alley had an exterior stairway to the second floor on the east side of the building (along the alley). Both buildings were vacant when a newer map set was published in June 1896. The 1901 map set shows a millinery business in the building at the alley (with the exterior stairway) while the building next door was vacant. The 1911 map set shows the two-story brick structure (with an iron-clad bay window) that is presented in the postcard scene. The map set identified the east portion as a dwelling and the west portion as a millinery business. This building is still standing at that corner and the bay window is still part of the building. The details on the building next door to the west in the postcard scene seem to match those on the building that is there today. The 1911 map set shows that building next door with its own bay window.
The 1890 map set also shows a millinery shop around the corner, south on the east side of Columbia Street. The 1896 map set actually shows two side-by-side buildings occupied by one larger, or maybe two different, millinery businesses at that location. Those were wood frame buildings and the 1901 map set shows they were being removed. A new brick building (the Wallace Block) was replacing one of them. By the time the 1911 map set was being published, brick buildings were occupying both of the millinery business locations on Columbia Street and no millinery businesses were located there.
The reflection in the millinery shop window shows part of a sign or banner across the street. The second of the two close-up sections presents that sign or banner backwards so the printing on the banner is easier to read. It advertised _____RS & SCHINDLER, ____ING SHOP. The 1908 Randolph County directory listed a blacksmith by the name of Schindler. He wasn’t listed in the business section under “Blacksmiths,” but both the 1901 and 1911 map sets show a blacksmith shop across the street from the millinery shop and a very short distance to the west at 226 Oak Street. Because the photographer was facing the Walden building at an angle, the reflection in the window would have been showing the blacksmith shop that was across the street and somewhat farther west. The blacksmith building was west of a livery business in a wood frame building when the 1901 map set was published. By the time the 1911 map set was being prepared, that larger building had been replaced by a masonry structure housing a garage for automobile repair. The map set showed the garage and the blacksmith building with the same address, 226 Oak Street. That may have been a mapping error or they were part of the same business.
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1912 postmarked postcard view of an iron bridge over Sugar Creek near New Palestine, Indiana. The specific location wasn’t identified. The road and hillsides were snow covered. The horse-drawn buggy at the top of the hill in the distance was approaching the bridge.
[See Tony's comments below the full postcard image (link below) regarding his determination of the location and the builder of this bridge.]
Given the topography and the angle of the stream under the bridge, the photographer was probably facing south when he took this photograph.
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1907 postcard view of the high school football team at Brazil, Indiana. Brazil is in Clay County. The photographer’s label on the postcard is incomplete, but identified the photographer of R. W. Birds___ with a studio at 21 North Meridian in Brazil. An online family genealogy document published in 1911 identified Royal Ward Birdsall as a photographer in Hampton, Iowa. However, the document also listed two of his children who were born in Brazil, Indiana, in 1905 and 1907. A third child was born in Hampton, Iowa, in 1910.
The 1906 team was reported to have had an 8 and 0 record. Comments in the Brazil Daily Times in the autumn of 1907 suggest the community closely followed their high school football team. The photograph was probably taken at the school.
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A special project I wanted to do for Halloween...I knew the concept of the costume I wanted, which was a ghost from the 1920's/1930's, but being a writer, I couldn't help but take it a step further and think about crafting a bit of a backstory & history behind my costume. It led to a poem I wrote entitled "Recollection" which is from a fictitious anthology of poetry set during Harlem of the 1920's and 30's called "Voices Of Harlem". I'm very much inspired by the greats during this period such as Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes and am excited about the possibility of writing this anthology of poems. Hope someone finds it half-way interesting and hope everyone had a great Halloween. Be sure to hit 'L' to see on black!
'Recollection'
by V.G. Grace
Poem from fictitious anthology "Voices Of Harlem"
I came on a 'Carolina wind,
open
unschooled.
I was certain I could take on
the city
'cuz my mother didn't raise a fool.
My eyes were the color of spring green grass.
The city had in store for me
somethin' cold and fast.
A shabby boarding-house room
was all I could afford.
It was no matter,
I was gonna save my money
and trust in the Lord.
I met a good-lookin' man with a coolness to his ways,
fell hard,
didn't know it was gonna be the end of my days.
It was good for a piece
but it turned sour
quick.
I was too simple,
he needed
a fun gal.
I thought him so beautiful,
so slick.
So I did what he wanted,
changing my
face,
body,
and head.
Turned myself inside-out,
drinkin' the nights away,
my lips painted his favorite color, blood red.
I did everything he asked and more,
but one night
he said he'd found himself a different gal
and that I'd become a bore.
I watched his back recede
into the cold
night
air.
I grabbed a bottle of whiskey
and drank
to wasted affairs,
then I bought a bottle of wine
and drank 'til I didn't care.
I started
dancin' wild
in the street.
Didn't hear that automobile comin'
or saw its lights,
but my eyes did land on the moon in the sky
before hittin' the concrete.
Don't know why,
but my last recollection is mama in the kitchen frying fish,
fresh cod.
My name?
It was Bertha Todd.
~End~
February 1986 - To the best of my recollection, this was Hakgala Botanical Gardens.
On occasion, I will try to digitize some personal, historic photos. Prior to 2002, all my images were done chemically. It will take a while to get a representative bunch on flickr.
To see information that's a bit more up-to-date, you are welcome to visit my eJournal and images.
Recollections of RTs and their numbers.
Reproduction plates now available from www.wecarveanywood.co.uk/page4.htm