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Doll Block (Kanata Trading Post) - 1907
Since it was built in 1907 the building once known as "Doll's Diamond Palace" has borne the name "L. H. Doll" in its parapet. Ontario-born Louis Henry Doll (1867-1961) arrived in Calgary in 1889 and, for the next twenty years, operated a well-known business as a jeweler, watch-maker, and optician. Only a year after he built this ornately decorated building (described as "the largest and most handsome jewelry house West of Toronto") tragedy struck. Doll's ten-year -old daughter Florence died of scarlet fever, plunging the pioneer businessman into depression. He lost interest in his jewelry business and in 1921 was committed to the mental institution at Ponoka, Alberta.
After his brief apprenticeship to Doll, David E. Black (1880-1972) established his own 8th Avenue jewelry shop, which has since been re-created at Heritage Park. Black relocated his business to the Doll Block in 1910, where it all fell victim that Christmas to what was then Calgary's largest ever jewelry heist. Pretending to deliver a package to Black's office, the noon-hour thief (who was never caught) made off with some $10,000 worth of gems. By the time Black sold out to Henry Birks & Sons in 1920, he employed sixty-five people and operated the largest watch repair shop in Western Canada. He headed the Chamber of Commerce in 1923 and became a lifetime director of the Calgary Exhibition & Stampede, for which he manufactured souvenir pins. As alderman from 1918-21, Black served under the City8 Hall clock his firm had installed in 1911.
Appropriately for a watchmaker, Black was a frequent time-keeper for foot races, chuckwagon races, wrestling bouts, and boxing matches ini the city. His wife Mae Lillian (1882-1955) as a founder and president of the Alberta Tuberculosis Association.
The next jeweler to occupy the Doll Block was Hedley R. Chauncey, a former business associate of Black's. Chauncey bought the building, renamed it the Chauncey Block, and operated his business here until 1946. A longtime alderman and chairman of the parks and playgrounds committee, Chauncey contested the mayoralty in 1945 and lost.
Sandstone arches and bands punctuate the Doll Block's red brick façade, creating a polychromatic effect. Seashell patterns adorn the third-floor oriel window, and, at the top, two small bartisan turrets flank the detailed brick and stone parapet. The Doll Block was restored in 1994 to house offices for the Calgary International Organ Festical and the Esther Honens International Piano Competition. It was incorporated into the new TELUS Convention Centre in 2000.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends a reception in honor of the 20th Anniversary of U.S.–Vietnam Trade Relations in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 2014. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Need something tonight to take me to a sunnier place.. maybe the Trade Winds could help me : )
Picture taken in Inverness, Scotland.. but the Captain has to help me with the name of the restaurant! : )
SG162 [1883] 6d on 6d plate 18 Board of Trade official perfin.
Rather than overprint their official stamps the Board of Trade perforated theirs with a crown over B . T
The Board of Trade perfins constitute the first of the 'official' stamps of Great Britain as they were in use before the overprinted officials. Perfins were in used from cNov 1880.
The first [known] perfin was on 2d blue plate 15 [issued July 1869]
Traded all my Canon DSLR gear for a 2nd hand Hasselblad XPan with 45/4 and a Contax G2 with the Carl Zeiss Trio :)
I recently attended a rather boring trade show and took some time to tour the grounds and take a few pics of my outfit: black ribbed bodysuit and jacket, Blackwatch tartan kilt, 20D black pantyhose and mid-height black patent heels.
You don't see these anymore. These were common in supermarkets, gas stations and other stores in the 1960s and 1970s. Machines like these would be mounted above or next to the cash register and the clerk or merchant would use the dial or slide to count out the number of trading stamps earned by the customer based on the dollar amount of their purchases. They operated manually. No electricity needed.
Two of these were custom made for S&H Green Stamps and and the one in the center is generic, so it could have dispensed any of thousands of brands of trading stamps that were issued in those days. The two with the rotary dials (kind of like the old telephones) were made by the Akra Stamp Machine Company of Arcadia, California and the one with the slides (on the left) was made by the Roto-Stamp Corporation of Gastonia, North Carolina.
The left-hand part of the trade room at Bent's Old Fort (1833-49). Note the small exterior window, which could be used for people you didn't want to allow inside the fort's walls.
Keys for the bone? I think the dog is a little smarter then the pirates think he is. I am fairly happy with the way this turned out. I rode this a few times and had to take the image from a good distance back with the 50 1.4. I am not completely happy with the white balance, think the image is still too yellow.
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The Baltimore World Trade Center, at 401 East Pratt Street, was built in 1977 by Henry Cobb and Pershing Wong of I.M. Pei & Partners. At 32 floors and 405-feet, it is the world's tallest even-sided pentagonal building (the five-sided JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston, Texas is taller, but has unequal sides). Perched at the Harbor's edge, the building appears to rise out of the water, suggesting the prow of a ship. The 27th-floor has an observation deck, called "Top of the World," that offers panoramic views of Baltimore during daytime hours.
A NOT-SO-PRIVATE “PRIVATE” ROCK GARDEN
Aysgarth Edwardian Rock Garden was commissioned by Frank Sayer-Graham (1859-1946). He was a local landowner who traded in silver rabbits fur which he farmed at the purpose built warren, below the renowned Lady Hill, to the west of Aysgarth. It is reputed that he supplied the last Czar of Russia with fur for a stole. He also exported rare gulls eggs to Europe. Upon his father’s death, Frank and his first wife Mary moved back to Frank’s childhood home, Heather Cottage (opposite the Rock Garden) and proceeded to convert it into a state of the art Edwardian house, embracing the Arts & Craft movement of the time.
Frank’s overriding passion, however, was for things horticultural. He planted fields of tulips and daffodils as well as at least two plantations of trees around the village. Rose Cottage (renamed Springhill) was his own private nursery.
It was, of course, the era of the great plant hunters, such as Reginald Farrer, who were bringing new and exciting plants into the country for the first time. Over in York were the famous alpine specialists and nurserymen Mssrs. James Backhouse & Son whose nursery at the time was larger than Kew. Rock gardening was undergoing a popular revival and the Backhouse nursery led the field of building walk-through Rock Gardens, typically in large estates, to house the new and fashionable plants, that were arriving from overseas, in a natural setting. At the Backhouse nursery at Acomb was their own show piece Rock Garden and also a spectacular underground fernery. Sadly the nursery was demolished in the 1950’s.
In 1906 Frank Sayer-Graham commissioned Backhouse to create his own personal Rock Garden complete with mountain stream and pool. Development took the best part of 8 years, the rock being brought down from Stephen’s Moor at Thornton Rust. Each boulder was transported on a low horse-drawn cart. The construction was overseen by one of Backhouse’s top foremen WA Clark who:‘was paid £1 a day, always wore gloves, carried a small gavelock (crowbar) and went home every third week’
To the rear of the Rock Garden, Frank planted a vegetable garden, his own personal touch. As the sign says on the gate, this was very much a private garden. Locals who remember Frank all bear testimony to the fact that they were not welcome in his garden. Children of the time recall Mrs. Sayer-Graham rapping on the windows of Heather Cottage if they so much as touched the railings. Despite its age even today few people know anything about the Rock Garden and even fewer have entered within.
Following Frank’s death the Rock Garden has had several owners. In 1988 when it was proposed to demolish the Rock Garden and develop the site, there was local uproar and English Heritage had it emergency Grade II listed, highly unusual as listing normally only covers buildings.
One owner determined to make it into a money making venture selling garden gnomes. Having spent good money on a television advertising campaign the venture was doomed to failure as the local youth armed with air rifles deemed the gnomes as good target practise!! Evidence of dismembered gnomes were uncovered during restoration.
In 1998 we bought Heather Cottage, which came complete with Rock Garden. Little did we realise just what we were taking on. Self seeded Ash and Sycamore trees covered a lot of the rock threatening to undermine its structure. Brambles and nettles ran amok, particularly in the vegetable garden. It resembled a rain forest more than it did a Rock Garden. Railings were in need of repair, 10m of stone walling had vanished, the stream and pool defunct. Following extensive research, we soon began to appreciate the Rock Garden not only as a unique piece of Aysgarth’s history but as being of national horticultural significance too. We resolved to return it to its former glory for the benefit of not only ourselves but others too.
As with all these things though, it soon became apparent that the main stumbling block was money. The following 3 and a half years were spent searching for funding. Just as hope of ever finding money was fading the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund stepped into the breach by way of an 80% grant. Once this was obtained the National park Authority donated their consultancy time free of charge, the Royal Horticultural Society and NatWest Bank made contributions, as did some local villagers. We have personally funded the remainder and undertaken to maintain the Rock Garden for a minimum of 10 years.
The restoration began in October 2002 and after extensive replanting was completed in April 2003. The Garden was officially opened in July 2003 by Eric Robson and both the restoration and opening were filmed by Tyne Tees TV. The 2-part documentary “The Secret Garden” was first screened in September 2003.
A dream has been realised – we hope to have preserved it for the enjoyment of generations to come.
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Bina Trade Sacks - now on sale over at BINA - a cute lil camisk made out of trade sacks - the one pictured is "Spices". Even has the Tahari stamp on the ass cheeks :D!
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Architectural details in the Harambe Market at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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"Man Controlling Trade," a sculpture (1942) by Michael Lantz outside the Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. I'm not sure who will win.
This is the progress in lower manhattan of the One World trade Center... its almost done. Taken from the piers in Hoboken NJ
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky led a trade mission to West Africa, October 28-31, 2019 to help United States exporters unlock new opportunities in a region where strong economic growth is driving demand for imported food and farm products.
“At USDA we are working to sell the bounty of American agriculture. West Africa is a bright spot with a growing middle class that are hungry for our delicious and wholesome agriculture products,” said Deputy Secretary Censky. “Through this trade mission and other efforts, USDA is proud to support President Trump’s Prosper Africa initiative, which is seeking to boost two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa. Prosper Africa brings together the full range of U.S. government resources to connect U.S. and African businesses with new buyers, suppliers, and investment opportunities – a win for the United States and for countries across the African continent.”
The mission will be based in Accra, Ghana, and will also include buyer delegations from Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Senegal.
Photos by U.S. Embassy Ghana