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Title: The domestic encyclopaedia, or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 4)
Creator: Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Creator: Mease, James, 1771-1846, editor
Creator: Shallus, Francis, engraver
Creator: Birch, William Young, 1764-1837, publisher
Creator: Small, Abraham, 1764?-1829, publisher
Creator: Carr, Robert, 1778-1866, printer
Publisher: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street ; Robert Carr, printer
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Date: 1803
Language: eng
Description: Description based on imperfect copies: NLM lacking vols. 3 and 5 of the 1803 edition
A variant of the 1803 imprint: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803
The 1803 edition not in Shaw & Shoemaker; cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 5592: "Vol 1-3, 5 dated 1804 [i.e. only vol. 4 dated 1803]"
Another "First American edition" was published in 1804. Cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 7772
On t.p., "In five volumes" is surrounded on top and bottom by double rules
Engraved plates, mostly signed: "F. Shallus sculp."
NLM Copy 1 imperfect: lacking v. 3, 5; untrimmed edges; many unopened bolts
NLM Copy 2: v. 4 only
NUC, pre-1956
Provenance: inscribed on front fly-leaves of vols. 1 and 2: "Mr. [?] H. Cocke, price $2.50 p vol., 1803"
Copies bound uniformly in blue-paper-coverd paste-board
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Date: 1920
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Will Voss
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This photograph is labeled "Valpo. University, Medical Building." The photograph was taken looking north from the south side of the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. Visible to the right is a footbridge over the railroad tracks known as "Lover's Repose." Sager's Lake would have been directly behind the photographer.
This photograph was included in an album of photographs that appear to have been taken by Will Voss between 1919 and 1921. Most of the photographs in the album are labeled and dated. The bulk of the photographs in the album were taken in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
It is apparent from the photographs taken in and around Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, that Will Voss was a student at Polk's School of Piano Tuning in Valparaiso.
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Date: Circa 1880s
Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: D. H. Wright
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.
This identification was made in the album below this carte de visite:
Clara Stephens DeMotte
On the reverse of the carte de visite is printed the following information:
WRIGHT'S
421½ Main Street,
TERRE HAUTE, IND.
Negative preserved, and duplicate prints as perfect as
the original furnished on short notice.
Clara A. (Stephens) DeMotte was born in Indiana on January 12, 1858, the daughter of James Stephens and Martha (Leonard) Stephens. In 1893, Clara married Mark L. DeMotte on her birthday (January 12) in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.
Clara passed away at her home in the Pioneer Flats (apartment building) in Valparaiso on May 19, 1933. She was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in Valparaiso.
The photograph was taken by D. H. Wright of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. Little is known about Wright other than he was operating his own studio in Terre Haute as early as 1870.
Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.
Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.
In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.
DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.
DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).
DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.
DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.
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BARTHOLOMEW & McCLELLAND
DRY GOODS BOOTS SHOES
&C
IND.
VALPARISO.
UNITED STATES
CAPITAL
1863
Date: 1863
Source Type: Civil War token
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Bartholomew & McClelland; token manufactured by Henry Darius Higgins of Mishawaka, Indiana
Postmark: Not applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Note that Valparaiso is incorrectly spelled as Valpariso on this token.
During the American Civil War, coins issued by the government began to experience a severe decrease in circulation as citizens hoarded coins containing gold, silver, and copper. As a result, transacting business became increasingly difficult as the war progressed. Many merchants therefore contracted to have private minters produce tokens as a proxy for government issued coinage. Today, these tokens are referred to as "store cards."
H. A. Ratterman, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was the first merchant to circulate privately minted tokens during the fall of 1862. The United States Congress, however, banned the usage of non-government issued coins on June 8, 1864, when it enacted 18 U.S.C. § 486; this law made the minting and usage of privately minted coins illegal and punishable by a prison term of up to five years, a fine of up to $2,000, or both.
In Valparaiso, the dry goods merchants Bartholomew & McClelland issued two types of copper tokens. Both types have one side that is nearly identical, reading "BARTHOLOMEW & McCLELLAND - DRY GOODS - VALPARAISO, IND. - BOOTS SHOES &c." One version of the token has a reverse side reading "UNITED STATES CAPITAL 1863" and includes an image of the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and eight stars; note that this misspells Valparaiso as Valpariso.
The other version of the token, which is the rarer of the two, has a reverse side reading "THE FLAG OF OUR UNION 1863" and includes an image of the American flag with a Liberty cap atop the flag pole and thirteen stars.
The capital and flag designs are attributed to Henry Darius Higgins, an optician from Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana. Higgins was apparently a craftsman. Besides eyeglasses, he produced sinking dies for tokens, barometers, false teeth, and guns. Due to his tokens' homemade appearance, they are commonly referred to today as "Indiana Primitives." Higgins produced tokens for merchants located in northern Indiana and southern Michigan, and they were produced in very limited quantities. As a result, most of Higgins' token are quite scarce.
Artillus V. Bartholomew and Marquis L. McClelland formed a partnership in the dry goods business in Valparaiso in 1862, a partnership that continued for four years when McClelland left the partnership to become the cashier of the First National Bank of Valparaiso. Bartholomew continued in the dry goods business for many years after the dissolution of the partnership, forming a business partnership with Valparaiso residents Stephen Finney and Claus Specht.
This token appears in tokencatalog.com, the premier source for token information.
⦿ Fuld No. IN915A-2a; rarity R6 (20 to 75 examples known to exist)
⦿ Unlisted in Wagaman
⦿ Token Catalog No. 390064
Sources:
Blickensderfer, Scott. 2008. Bartholomew & McClelland, Valparaiso, Indiana. The Civil War Token Journal 42(1):11-33.
Fuld, George, and Melvin Fuld. 1975. U.S. Civil War Store Card. Second Edition. Lawrence, Massachusetts: Quarterman Publications, Inc. 615 p.
Wagaman, Lloyd E. 1981. Indiana Trade Tokens. Fairfield, Ohio: Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Token and Medal Society. 302 p.
TokenCatalog.com
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CATHOLIC CHURCH. GERMAN LUTHERAN. CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Date: 1894
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Robert R. Beatty, Photo Tint Engraving Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Roman Catholics in the area around Valparaiso in Porter County, Indiana, would begin to regularly meet in the early 1850s on the farm of Patrick T. Clifford located immediately west of the intersection of present day Harrison Boulevard and Froberg Road. Mass was conducted outdoors and the congregation would establish a cemetery on the property. A new Catholic cemetery would later be established southeast of Valparaiso and most burials at the Clifford farm were removed to this new burial ground. Burials remaining at the Clifford property were eventually obliterated due to agricultural activities.
The first church to be built by Valparaiso's Roman Catholic congregation was completed in 1858. The structure was situated on the southwest corner of the intersection of present day Chicago Street and Weston Street, described as Lot 1, Block 3 of the West Valparaiso Addition. Today [2021], a residential structure is located on this site with a street address of 107 Weston Street.
This wood frame church had a footprint of 110 feet by 50 feet and cost approximately $2,000 to erect. Father John Force, who served as parish pastor from July 1858 to December 1858 was largely responsible for guiding the completion of the church's construction. It has been noted in some sources that the interior of the church was very simple and plain with wooden planks used for the floor boards.
It is interesting to note that when the West Valparaiso Addition was added within the boundaries of the City of Valparaiso, Weston Street was named 5th Street. When the church was constructed, the street's name was changed to St. Paul Street. It appears that at some point in time after 1893 the street was once again renamed to Weston Street.
Between 1858 and 1863, the parish was accumulating a substantial debt burden on their church property and the parish was forced to close the church due to a court injunction sought by creditors. As a result, the congregation met in the second story of Hughart's Hall in Valparaiso, which was rented for $2 per Sunday. Hughart's Hall was located in the upper floor of the Empire Block building (Block 18 on Main Street across north of the court house square). Hughart's Hall later became Wilson's Hardware.
On Easter Sunday 1863, local pastor Father Michael O'Reilly was able to secure the wood frame church property, which was at this time in dire need of repair. After putting the structure back into good working order, the congregation converted the wood frame church into the newly founded St. Paul Catholic School.
Later in 1863, Father O'Reilly purchased one acre of land at the intersection of present day Chicago Street and Campbell Street for $1,800. The congregation would raise funds for several years in order to build the pastoral residence on this property in 1870 at a cost of about $6,000. This residence was continually used by the church's clergy until June 2018 (148 years).
Near the pastoral home, a new brick school called St. Paul's Academy was completed in 1872 at a cost of $9,000 and opened in September of that year for use. The Sisters of Providence at St. Mary of the Woods in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, provided the teachers for the school.
A second St. Paul Catholic Church, seen above, was constructed of brick on the northeast corner of the intersection east Chicago Street and Campbell Street, the cornerstone being laid on Sunday, October 7, 1883, by Bishop Dwenger of Fort Wayne. More than 8,000 people witnessed the laying of the church cornerstone.
The foundation stones used in the construction of the church were obtained from the foundation of the 1853 Porter County court house, which was torn down in the spring of 1883 and replaced with a much larger building.
This gothic-style structure, built under the direction of Father O'Reilly, was constructed at a cost of more than $65,000 and was one of the largest churches in Indiana upon its completion. Father O'Reilly passed away less than year after the church was completed. O'Reilly's funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in Porter County as he was a very active and beloved member in the Valparaiso community.
The brick church, designed by Chicago architect Gregory Vigeant, was 153 in length, with a transept of 95 feet, a 65 foot nave, and a spire nearly 200 feet in height. Money was raised for church construction by parishioners donating 25 cents a week to a building fund. This brick church was dedicated for use on October 17, 1886.
After 80 years of use, the brick church was found to have several structural deficiencies that would be prohibitively expensive to repair. Thus, a third church was constructed on a 34 acre parcel along Harrison Boulevard, which was dedicated on Friday, October 27, 1967. In November 1967, demolition took place to remove the brick church.
Located at 308 Washington Street, the German Lutheran Church was constructed in 1891 by Valparaiso builders Henry Lemster and his son, Charles Lemster, and dedicated on Sunday, November 15, 1891. First known as the German Lutheran Church, the church name later changed to Immanuel Lutheran Church. A fire in the structure in 1975 caused considerable damage, but the church was repaired and is now known as Heritage Lutheran Church.
Located on the northwest corner of Franklin Street and Chicago Street, the First Christian Church was constructed in 1888.
This photographic image was included in a souvenir photograph book published by Robert R. Beatty in 1894. Beatty was the proprietor of a photography studio in Valparaiso that was first located at 65 College Avenue and later at 20 South Locust Street. The Valparaiso studio was in operation from the 1880s to about 1902 when he sold his business to Henry A. W. Brown and became a student at the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology.
Sources:
Beatty, Robert R. 1894. Souvenir Valparaiso, Ind. Chicago, Illinois: Photo Tint Engraving Company. 37 p.
Porter County Vidette, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; May 10, 1883; volume 27, Number 19, Page 5, Column 3.
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; May 14, 1885; Volume 2, Number 7, Page 1, Column 6.
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; November 20, 1891; Volume 8, Number 32, Page 4, Columns 4-6. Column titled "Dedicated to God. Interesting Ceremonies at the new Valparaiso German Lutheran Church Sunday."
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RESIDENCE OF JOHN BRODIE, VALPARAISO.
Date: 1895
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Lee and Lee
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: John Brodie resided at 55 East Jefferson Street in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. This house no longer exists.
The following biography of John Brodie is contained in Goodspeed Brothers' 1894 Pictorial and Biographical Record of La Porte, Porter, Lake and Starke Counties, Indiana."
JOHN BRODIE. Among the sons of Scotland who have brought with them to this country the sturdy habits of industry and integrity which have ever marked those of that nationality, we are gratified to be able to name John Brodie, who is Director of State Prison North, and a prominent resident of Valparaiso. Age has not laid its dignifying hand upon our subject, but the weight and responsibility of the above mentioned position have been assigned him, because of his peculiar fitness as a man of ability and rare judgment. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, November 28, 1854, and when two years of age was brought by his parents to America. They settled near Montreal, Canada, and there the father received his final summons. He was a farmer by occupation. The mother also passed her last days there. They were the parents of six children, two of whom are living: our subject and Eliza who resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. John Brodie was but ten years of age when his father died, and he was reared on a farm and educated in a log school-house. His scholastic training was rather limited as he did not attend school after reaching the age of ten years. In 1877 he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and thence to Chicago, where he remained a short time. In 1879 he came to Valparaiso, Indiana, and engaged in railroad contracting, building a part of the Chicago & Grand Trunk R. R. Later he bought a farm near Valparaiso, Indiana, and for the past ten years has been engaged as an agriculturist. He owns 320 acres of land and is one of the county's most substantial and worthy citizens. He was elected a director of the State prison in 1891, and is a man who thoroughly understands his business. For one term he was a member of the City Council. Mr. Brodie has been the carver of his own destiny and has made it an honorable one. Affable in his manners, courteous in his address, firm in his convictions and faithful in his attachments, he is well liked in the community where he makes his home. While it can not positively be said that he is a relative of John Brodie of Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby," he is a native of Scotland and possesses the honest, rugged, warmhearted traits given that character. Mr. Brodie was married to Mrs. Schenck, and to them were born two children. In politics, he is a Democrat, although liberal in his views.
Sources:
Goodspeed Brothers. 1894. Pictorial and Biographical Record of La Porte, Porter, Lake and Starke Counties, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Brothers. 569 p. [see pp. 465-466]
Lee and Lee. 1895. Lee and Lee's Atlas of Porter County, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Lee and Lee. 81 p.
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RESIDENCE OF M. L. M'CLELLAND.
Date: 1898
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Headlight Engraving Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The following biographical sketch of Marquis L. McClelland was published in the Goodspeed and Blanchard's 1882 history of Lake and Porter Counties, Indiana.
MARQUIS L. McCLELLAND, insurance agent, was born in La Fayette, Ind., February 26, 1830. He is a son of John T. and Sarah (McCarl) McClelland, who were natives of Washington County, Penn. John T. McClelland was born in the year 1800, and his wife in 1804. They were married in their native State, and from there moved to La Fayette, Ind., in 1828. In 1831, Mr. McC. Started west through South Bend, Niles and to Chicago. The spring of 1832, he removed to South Bend, where he embarked in mercantile pursuits. He was one of the pioneers and was identified with some of the leading manufactories of that place, and at the time of his death, in June 1840, was engaged in erecting extensive works for the manufacture of glass; he was also engaged in the manufacture of pig-iron at Mishawaka. He was a very active Democrat, and was the first County Treasurer of St. Joseph County. He was a man very popular with all classes, especially so with the poor, and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. He and wife had born to them three children, two of whom are yet living - Mrs. Mills, of Rochester, N. Y., and the subject of this sketch. Mrs. McClelland continued to reside in South Bend, and there married William S. Vail. This couple moved to Valparaiso in 1863, where they are both yet living at advanced ages. To their union were born two children, of whom only one, William H., a jeweler of Valparaiso, yet lives. Marquis L. McClelland was but ten years old when his father died. He learned the tanner's and currier's trade, but has never made that his business. He came to Valparaiso in 1854, was employed as salesman in different mercantile establishments, and the fall of 1861 was appointed Clerk of the Congressional Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, of which Hon. Schuyler Colfax was Chairman, and at that gentleman's solicitation acted as his Private Secretary in the Forty-second Congress. He returned to Valparaiso in 1862 and engaged in the dry goods trade, in partnership with A. V. Bartholomew. He continued at this four years, and in the meantime was active in organizing the First National Bank. He was elected the first cashier, and continued as such about eighteen years. Since that time he has been engaged in a general life and fire insurance business. He was married, October 3, 1853, to Miss Sarah A. Wilmington, of South Bend, and to them have been born two children - Theodore and Flora. Mr. McClelland has been a member of the Masonic order for twenty-five years, and has passed through the Blue Doge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Scottish Rites, and is a Past Eminent Commander of the Commandery. The Blue Lodge at Hobart, Ind., is named in his honor. He is a Republican, and has filled the positions of Township Treasurer and Clerk of Centre Township. He is the county's present nominee for the State Legislature, and has served two terms in the City Council. He and two others were active in building the C. & G. T. R. R. from Valparaiso to South Bend, and he has always taken active part in all the public affairs of the county. He and Schuyler Colfax was raised as boys together, and have always been on the most intimate and confidential terms.
Sources:
Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey & Company. 771 p. [see pp. 261-262]
Grand Trunk Railway. 1898. Headlight: Sights and Scenes Along the Grand Trunk Railway: Valparaiso, Ind.. Volume 3, Number, 6, Page 22.
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www.sapadventures.com/ The Inca Trail is a magnificent, well preserved Inca Trail route which connects Machu Picchu with what once were other regions of the Inca Empire, and today it is one of the world’s most popular treks. This four-day walk goes from the highlands of 4,200mts and down through the cloud forests to finally arrive at Machu Picchu - 2,380mts.
DAY 01. - Between 06:00 and 06:30 we pick you up at your hotel in our private bus. Ensure you have your original passport and ISIC student card (if applicable – for a discount on entree fee to Machu Picchu).
The journey by bus to km 82 (the starting point for the Inca Trail) takes approximately 3 hours. Once we get there and are all ready to go, this first day will have us walking mostly through the valley. It starts at 2380m with a small climb to a plateau overlooking the Incan site of Llactapata and rewards you with superb views of Mount Veronica. Walking times are always approximate depending on weather conditions, group ability and other factors, but generally you will walk about 2-3 hours before lunch. Then after lunch we walk on just past the village of Wayllabamba to reach our first campsite at 3000m.
Approx 14km, 6 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 02. - Day 2 is the most difficult day as you Inca Trail walk from about 3000m to 4200m — the highest pass of the trek (known as Dead Woman’s Pass – but don’t be discouraged!). You can walk at your own pace and stop to get your breath whenever you like. You’ll find your energy returns once you continue down to the valley of Pacaymayo, where we camp at 3600m.
You can hire a porter from the village of Wayllabamba to carry your pack to the top of this pass for approximately 70 soles. If you wish to do so you must organize and pay this money directly to the person who carries your items, and please check your belongings upon receiving them at the end of this service as these people are not Sap Adventures staff.
This is the coldest night at Inca Trail; between +2/+4 degrees Celsius (in December) and -3/-5 degrees Celsius (in June). Approx 12km, 7 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 03.- Day 3 is exceptionally beautiful because of the ruins you will witness and the incredible stone Inca Trail you walk one, and also because there is a lot more downhill than uphill! However, there are about 2000 stairs descending from the ruins of Phuyupatamarca to those of Wiñaywayna, so take care with your knees. If you have had knee or ankle injuries an extra porter is recommended so that you are not carrying extra weight and overstressing your joints. There is a guided tour of all the ruins on the way. Camping is usually at Wiñaywayna 2700 mtrs.
Take extra care of your personal belongings at this campsite as all the tours campsites are nearby. As usual, always keep your daypack containing your valuables with you. The only hot shower on the Inca Trail is on this third night at Wiñaywayna. There is a hostel near the campsite with an 8min hot shower for 5 soles, and a bar and restaurant where you can purchase bottled water.
Approx 16km, 6 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
DAY 04.- We get up extremely early to arrive at the magical Intipunku "The Gate of the Sun" as the first rays begin illuminating the lost city of Machu Picchu down bellow. A further 20 min walk down from here takes us to the famous view from the terraces at the end of the trail. It is a good time to take pictures before the 10:30 crowds arrive. Your tour of Machu Picchu should last about 2 hours and finish between 10:30 and 11:00am. Then you have free time to climb Huayna Picchu if you wish (This is the famous peak in the background of most images of Machu Picchu. The trek is about 90 minutes). A maximum of 400 hikers can climb this mountain per day so if you are determined then start immediately after your tour! Or, of course, you may simply just collapse under a tree and quietly reflect in amazement at the mystery, the architectural achievement and beauty of Machu Picchu.
From Machu Picchu, it is a pleasant walk through sub-tropical jungle down to Aguas Calientes (about 45 mins), but if you are weary you may also take a bus – the $7 bus ticket is included and your guide will give you the ticket.
Once in Aguas Calientes you can have a hot shower, and then store your backpack while you go to have lunch, visit the hot springs or shop around the village.
If you are not extending your stay for one night in Aguas Calientes*, you will leave around 6pm to return to Cusco by train or by a combination of train & bus. Please note that during the high season there are a number of different departure times for the trains that run only to Ollantaytambo, from where buses run onwards till Cusco. The type of return journey depends simply on availability. You will arrive back in Cusco around 9 - 9.30pm.
Approx 7km, 2 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
BANK OF RENSSELAER
Will Pay ONE DOLLAR to the bearer
on demand. RENSSELAER. March 1st, 1854.
Date: March 1, 1854
Source Type: Obsolete Scrip
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Danforth, Wright & Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This note is listed in Wolka et al. as No. 697-1 with its rarity noted as R7 and Wolka as 2080-01 with a rarity of R7. The rarity scale ranges from R-1 to R-7, with R-7 indicating that between one and five specimens are known to exist.
The Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Rensselaer is believed to have been established in 1854. A newspaper item published in the Evansville Daily Journal on January 31, 1855, indicated that this financial institution was recognized as being a second class bank with a bonded issue of notes circulating of $57,000. The bank failed in 1855 and, according to state records, the bank left no known legal outstanding scrip in circulation.
Wolka writes that:
"These notes are virtually identical to the issues of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank in Indianapolis as the plate was legally altered from 'Indianapolis' to 'Rensselaer' during 1854 in all probability. It is interesting to note that W. F. May, who was at one time the bank’s President, embezzled $10,000 from the Indianapolis institution and fled that city!"
The following from the History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, confirms Wolka’s statement (p. 218):
"The 'Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank' was started by Col. Allen May, then recently State agent, and Mr. G. Lee, with the colonel’s nephew, W. Frank May, as cashier, early in 1854, on the ground-floor of the old Masonic Hall. Frank May embezzled then thousand dollars and ran away. He was succeeded by O. Williams, but the bank never recovered from the effect of it."
The following news item appears in the January 26, 1855, issue of the Indiana American:
"Mysterious Disappearance – Possible Murder – Probable Swartwouting!!!
Last Saturday, the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Indanopalis [sic] was not opened. On Friday, the Cashier, W. F. May, complained of being unwell and Saturday morning a card was found on the door of the bank, 'Cashier sick.' The owner of the bank hearing of the circumstances called to see his sick Cashier, when lo, he had left his boardidg [sic] house at 5 A. M., in company with a stranger. No clue to his whereabouts had been obtained at latest date. It is possible the stranger may have killed the Cashier, but it is more probable that he has left for parts unknown. The banks [sic] is one of the No. 1’s, but we would advise that it be received tenderly untill [sic] further developments."
[Note: Swartwouting refers to Samuel Swartwout. Swartwout was a participant in the Swartwout-Hoyt scandal. He was indicted in 1841 for embezzling more than $1.2 million during his tenure as the Collector of the Port of New York. A legacy of this scandal was the term “Swartwouted out,” which came to be defined as the embezzlement of a large sum of money from the United States government and the subsequent escape to a foreign country to escape capture and punishment.]
The following news item appears in the January 31, 1855, issue of The Indiana Herald:
"Sloped.
W. F. May, the Cashier of the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of this city, and President of the Bank of the same name, at Rensselaer, disappeared on Saturday morning, without notice. About the same time, all the available funds of the Bank at this place disappeared also. Colonel Allen May, the owner of the Banks, published a card in this morning’s Sentinel, in which he sets for the securities of the depositors and bill holders, and says, he hopes to be able in a few days to make arrangements for the redemption of the bills."
The Indiana Herald updated their earlier news item on February 21, 1855, with the following:
"The officer sent in pursuit of W. F. May, the absconding cashier of the Farmer’s and Mechanic’s Bank, has returned without being able to arrest the rascal. It is supposed that he sailed for Europe on the Baltic."
Source Information::
Bloomington News-Letter, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana; August 5, 1854; Volume 1, Number 27, Page 2, Column 6. Column titled “An Abstract, Showing the Name and Location, by Town and County, of each Free Bank in Indiana.
Evansville Daily Journal, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana; January 31, 1855; Volume 7, Number 235, Page 3, Column 5. Column titled “Value of Indiana Free Bank Money.”
Indiana American, Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana; January 26, 1855; Volume 23, Number 6, Page2, Column 2. Column titled “Mysterious Disappearance – Possible Murder – Probable Swartwouting!!!.”
The Indiana Herald, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana; January 31, 1855; Volume 7, Number 18, Page 2, Column 6. Column titled “Sloped.”
The Indiana Herald, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana; February 21, 1855; Volume 7, Number 21, Page 2 Column 6.
Sulgrove, Berry Robinson. 1884. History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: L. H. Everts & Company. 296 p.
Wolka, Wendell. 2018. A History of Indiana Obsolete Bank Notes and Scrip. Sun City Center, Florida: Wendell Wolka. 900 p. [see pp. 220-221]
Wolka, Wendell A., Jack M. Vorhies, and Donald A. Schramm. 1978. Indiana Obsolete Notes and Scrip. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. 306 p. [see p. 682]
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Kumarakom is a popular tourism destination located near the city of Kottayam (16 kilometres (10 mi)), in Kerala, India, famous for its backwater tourism. It is set in the backdrop of the Vembanad Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the state of Kerala.
Kumarakom is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary is a noted bird sanctuary where many species of migratory birds visit. The Vembanad Lake, the largest backwater in Kerala, is habitat for many marine and freshwater fish species and it teems with Karimeen (Pearl spot also known as Etroplus suratensis) shrimp (Metapenaeus dobsonii) common name Poovalan chemeen. The bird sanctuary extends over 14 acres (57,000 m²), and came into existence following preservation efforts from the government. It is a major tourist attraction.
Kumarakom has a moderate climate throughout the year. It is a balanced tropical climate, which has two monsoons south west and north east. The average rainfall is 1100 mm.
Fishing, agriculture and tourism are the major economic activities. Kumarakom's perfectly balanced tropical climate is very conductive to cultivation. The place has expanses of mangrove forests, paddy fields and coconut groves. Fruits like Banana, Mango, Jackfruit, Ambazhanga, Puli (Tamerind), Chaambenga, Peraycka(Guuva), Aathaycka and Pineapple grow here. Also, cocoa and coffee, chena(yam) and chembu (colocasia), grow well and were cultivated under the coconut trees. This rich agricultural environment is mainly irrigated using interspersed waterways and canals of the Meenachil river. The smaller canals are often lined by hibiscus plants which lean partly over the canals to form a green canopy, from which hang the lovely hibiscus flowers.
In the olden days, when the bund separating the backwaters from the sea was not yet built, the water in the canals moved in and out with the sea tide and it was salty. After the Thanneermukkam bund was constructed, the connection to the open sea was not free anymore, and so the tidal movement of the water in the canals stopped. It stagnated and then plenty of water hyacinths started growing densely in the canals,forming lovely green carpets with pale lilac flowers carpets.
Main religions are Hinduism and Christianity. The 1000-year old Thazhathangady Juma Masjid, a mosque, is located nearby.[
Fishing is mainly done using the small boats (vallams) and gill nets (gear). The main catches are black clam (Villorita cyprinoides), Karimeen (Pearl spot also known as Etroplus suratensis) and shrimp (Metapenaeus dobsonii).
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumarakom
Date: Circa 1890s
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Gold was discovered in Warren Creek in August 1862, which quickly led to the settlement of Warren (also known as Warrens and Warren's Station).
The mining community, being established during the Civil War, was split into two groups. One group supporting the southern cause referred to the community as Richmond. Those supporting the north referred to their growing town as Washington.
The present year-round population of Warren ranges from twelve to sixteen.
Bailey provides the following description of this photograph:
Warrens, a colorful town of central Idaho. It was here that Charles Bemis in a spectacular poker game, won Polly, the Chinese slave girl, for his bride.
Source:
Bailey, Robert G. 1935. River of No Return. Lewiston, Idaho: Bailey-Blake Printing Company. 515 p. [see p. 477]
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Heinhold Elevator Company
Aylesworth, Indiana
Date: 1940
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Kouts Centennial Book (1965)
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The community of Aylesworth was a flag station and shipping point established about 1865 along the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad located five and one-half miles east of Hebron. The station was named in honor of Giles Aylesworth, who taught at the wood frame schoolhouse in this location in the 1840s.
This elevator, which was operated by Heinhold Elevator Company and no longer exists, stood south of present day Indiana State Road 8 along County Road 250 West.
Sources:
Centennial Committee. 1965. Kouts Centennial, 1865-1965. Kouts, Indiana: Centennial Committee. 181 p.
The Vidette-Messenger (Memoirs, Special Anniversary Edition), Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; March 26, 1991; Volume 64, Number 247, Page 3, Columns 1-6. Column titled “Aylesworths Keep Name Present in Community,” by Peter J. Wiltjer.
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United Airlines, NC13304
Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana
Date: October 10, 1933
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Acme Newspictures (#CT 212726)
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This particular United Airlines Boeing 247 possessed a registration number of NC13304; it entered commercial service on April 7, 1933, and was the fourth production Boeing 247. On October 10, 1933, the airplane crashed on the Jackson Township farm of James Smiley (Northwest Quarter of Section 15, Township 36 North, Range 5 West; southeast of the intersection of 400 East and 1000 North) while on a transcontinental flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Oakland, California. The airplane was on its Cleveland to Chicago segment when it exploded en route at approximately 9:00 pm. Eyewitnesses stated that they saw the airplane in flames at an altitude of 1,000 feet and that a second explosion occurred after the airplane had crashed to the ground.
Investigators of the disaster, including the U.S. Bureau of Investigation, found that "...the tragedy resulted from an explosion somewhere in the region of the baggage compartment in the rear of the plane. Everything in front of the compartment was blown forward, everything behind blown backward, and things at the side outward.... The gasoline tanks, instead of being blown out, were crushed in, showing there was no explosion in them."
Those involved with the investigation concluded that crash had been due to a bomb, with the explosive agent believed to be nitroglycerin. The historical significance of the NC13304 crash is that it is thought to be the first proven act of air sabotage in commercial aviation. Despite a very intense investigation, no suspect has ever been identified or charged in this bombing, and the case remains unsolved.
The following information is provided on the back of this photograph:
AIR LINER BURNS AND CRASHES NEAR GARY INDIANA
SEVEN PEOPLE ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN AN AIR LINER BURST INTO FLAMES AND CRASHED IN THE WOODS NEAR CHESTERTON, IND, TWELVE MILES FRO GARY, IND, OCT. 10. THE PLANE, CARRYING FIVE PASSENGERS, ON THE REGULAR TRIP FROM CLEVELAND TO CHICAGO, HAD REPORTED BY RADIO JUST A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE CRASH.
10-10-33
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Date: 1881
Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: John Wesley McLellan
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.
On the reverse of the carte de visite is printed the following information:
J. W. McLellan,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
1881
Valparaiso, Indiana.
The photograph was taken by John Wesley McLellan at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. McLellan operated a photography studio in Valparaiso from 1873 to the mid-1890s.
Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.
Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.
In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.
DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.
DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).
DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.
DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.
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Date: Circa 1880s
Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: D. H. Wright
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.
Written in ink on the reverse of this carte de visite is the following:
To Ned.
No identification is provided on this carte de visit, but it is possible that this is a photograph of Clara Stephens DeMotte.
On the reverse of the carte de visite is printed the following information:
WRIGHT'S
421½ Main Street,
TERRE HAUTE, IND.
Negative preserved, and duplicate prints as perfect as
the original furnished on short notice.
The photograph was taken by D. H. Wright of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. Little is known about Wright other than he was operating his own studio in Terre Haute as early as 1870.
Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.
Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.
In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.
DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.
DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).
DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.
DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.
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Date: 1920
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Will Voss
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This photograph is labeled "Theo. Gose of So. Chicago & Richard Burns Gary Ind. All taken at Valparaiso." The photograph was taken at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, which was located at 453 West Lincolnway in Valparaiso and was torn down after a fire destroyed much of the structure.
This photograph was included in an album of photographs that appear to have been taken by Will Voss between 1919 and 1921. Most of the photographs in the album are labeled and dated. The bulk of the photographs in the album were taken in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
It is apparent from the photographs taken in and around Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, that Will Voss was a student at Polk's School of Piano Tuning in Valparaiso.
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Crew / Passengers Rank - if applicable Position e.g. Pilot Status
Anthony Winter Lane Flying Officer Pilot Killed
Charles Douglas Brown Pilot Officer Bomb Aimer Killed
Charles Leslie Grisdale Pilot Officer Navigator Injured
Raymond Gerard Rouse Sergeant Air Gunner / Instructor Killed
Miller Sergeant Wireless Operator / Air Gunner Injured
The crew were one of seven from No.28 OTU taking part in a Bullseye exercise from Wymeswold and the unit's satellite airfield of Castle Donington (which is now in use as East Midlands Airport), they had taken off at 19:19 on the 29th January. At 01:45 on the 30th January while flying in low cloud and wintry weather the aircraft flew into Birchen Bank Moss killing three of the crew and injuring the two others. They were eventually rescued and transferred to Ashton under Lyne hospital suffering from exposure and other injuries. Also lost during the exercise was Wellington R1538, which crashed near Stoke on Trent. Additionally Wellington Mk.III X3941 from No.27 OTU crashed in the Peak District after the Bullseye exercise it was taking part in was cancelled due to the weather.
Text by kind permission of Alan L Clark www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk
6300 MILLER AVE
WILCO
GARY IND.
FOOD STAMP CREDIT
10¢
IN ELIGIBLE FOODS
Date: Circa 1970s
Source Type: Token
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Plasco Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The Wilco Food Center was a chain of grocery stores located in Northwest Indiana. The first store opened in the Miller neighborhood of Gary in 1962 and is named after William Costas, the proprietor. Prior to opening Wilco, Costas owned the Gary Produce Company in Gary.
Today [2018], this Wilco Food Center in Miller is an abandoned building. Prior to abandonment, the building was used by the Urban Construction and Training Academy operated by the Gary Urban enterprise Association. The building is located directly south of the Marquette Apartments on South Grand Boulevard.
Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government issued coupons to families and individuals whose income level was below a certain threshold. The purpose of the coupons was to assist in the purchase of food. Today, SNAP cards are issued by the federal government for the same purpose.
During the 1970s, the lowest denomination of federally issued "food stamps" was one dollar and federal law prohibited the exchange of food stamps for money. Hence, to solve the issue of providing change to customers, companies issued credit tokens in lieu of money. These tokens could then be used to purchase "eligible food" items.
The federal law changed in January 1979 and retailers were allowed to provide change to customers as long as the coins amounted to less than one dollar. This new law essentially eliminated the use of food stamp credit tokens in the United States.
⦿ Wagaman No. G-3000c; rarity modern
Source:
Wagaman, Lloyd E. 1981. Indiana Trade Tokens. Fairfield, Ohio: Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Token and Medal Society. 302 p.
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H. D. SCHOFIELD & CO.,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Choice Groceries, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.
Crisman, Ind.
Date: February 10, 1894
Source Type: Letterhead
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This letterhead was used by Herbert Dudley Scofield's general merchandise store located in Crisman, Porter County, Indiana. Note that the letterhead spells Scofield's surname as Schofield. Contemporary newspaper articles, postcards inscribed with his name, the sign posted outside his store, his death certificate, and even his tombstone, however, spell his surname as Scofield.
Herbert Dudley Scofield was born in Cook County, Illinois, on February 22, 1860, the son of John and Emma (Montrose) Scofield. At the age of seven, Scofield moved to Crisman, Porter County, Indiana, to learn the agricultural trade under the guidance of Burrill Hall. On May 30, 1893, Herbert married Augusta Matilda Humphrey.
In 1892, Scofield purchased a small stock of goods and established a merchandise business in Crisman that grew into a well-established and large general store. Beginning in 1893, Scofield served as the postmaster of Crisman. Scofield passed away at Crisman on July 20, 1928, as a result of arteriosclerosis, and was interred in the McCool Cemetery in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
Written on this letterhead are the lyrics to an 1892 song by Charles Kassell Harris, titled After the Ball. The song centers on an old bachelor recounting the story of his long-lost love to his young niece. Conductor and composer John Philip Sousa would play the song when he toured the country with his band, quickly making the song popular nationwide. It was the biggest hit of the 1890s with over five million copies of After the Ball sheet music being sold in that decade alone. It was reportedly the first song to ever sell over one million copies. Here is a link to Kathryn Burke singing the song After the Ball.
AFTER THE BALL
1 A little maiden climbed an old man’s knees,
Begged for a story -- "Do uncle, please!
Why are you single; why live alone?
Have you no babies; have you no home?"
"I had a sweetheart, years, years ago;
Where she is now, pet, you will soon know.
Last to the story, I’ll tell it all:
I believed her faithless after the ball.“
Chorus
After the ball is over, after the break of morn --
After the dancers' leaving, after the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching, if you could read them all;
Many the hopes that have vanished after the ball.
2 Bright lights were flashing in the grand ballroom,
Softly the music, playing sweet tunes.
There came my sweetheart, my love, my own, --
"I wish some water; leave me alone.
When I returned, dear, there stood a man,
Kissing my sweetheart as lovers can.
Down fell the glass, pet, broken, that’s all,
Just as my heart was after the ball. -- chorus.
3 Long years have passed, child, I have never wed,
True to my lost love, though she is dead.
She tried to tell me, tried to explain;
I would not listen, pleadings were vain;
One day a letter came from that man --
He was her brother, the letter ran --
That’s why I’m lonely, no home at all;
I broke her heart, pet, after the ball." -- (chorus)
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On October 31, the event "TEDxGroningen 2013" was held at the Stadsschouwburg in Groningen.
Fatima talked about the applicability of having access to satellites from cell phones.
Fatima is an Aerospace engineering Master Student at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in Europe. She is also a creative space enthusiast, motivated entrepreneur, world traveller and published her first publication for the (International Astronautical Congress) IAS 2013 in Beijing, China, which substantiates a novel business model of a CubeSat constellation for Earth imaging together with Prof. JM Kuiper.
Photo by Joost Nuijten
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Title: The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 3)
Creator: Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Creator: Mease, James, 1771-1846, editor
Creator: Birch, William Young, 1764-1837, publisher
Creator: Small, Abraham, 1764?-1829, publisher
Creator: Carr, Robert, 1778-1866, printer
Creator: Shallus, Francis, engraver
Creator: T. & J. Swords (Firm), publisher
Publisher: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Date: 1803
Language: eng
Description: In five volumes, each with a separate, dated title page. The imprint year of vol. 5 is 1804
The 1803 edition apparently not in Shaw & Shoemaker; cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 5592: "Vol 1-3, 5 dated 1804 [i.e. only vol. 4 dated 1803]"
A variant imprint of the 1803 edition lacks "T. & J. Swords, New-York"
Another "First American edition" was published in 1804. Cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 7772
On t.p., "In five volumes" is surrounded on top and bottom by double rules
Engraved plates, mostly signed: "F. Shallus sculp."
Includes index
NLM copy provenance: stamp and inscriptions ("Presented by S.C. Hill to J.M. Dalrymple") of Jno [John] M. Dalrymple; title leaf cut away at heads of each of the title leaves, with loss of MS. markings (of provenance?)
NLM copy volumes bound uniformly in contemporary tree calf
Condition reviewed
digitized
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Crew / Passengers Rank - if applicable Position e.g. Pilot Status
Stanley Baker Pilot Officer Pilot (Instructor) OK
Anthony St Clair Turner Flight Sergeant RAAF Pilot Injured
Donald Norman Dawson Flight Sergeant RAAF Navigator Injured
Ronald Douglas Weeks Sergeant RAAF Bomb Aimer Injured
Walter Samuel Sinclair Flight Sergeant RAAF Wireless Operator / Air Gunner OK
Alan Gordon Allwright Sergeant Wireless Operator Injured
The weather on the 9th December 1942 was typical for that time of year, low cloud, strong winds and rain, it was into this inhospitable climate that the crew of Wellington DV810 were sent, the purpose being a night cross country navigation exercise. The navigator had thought the aircraft had reached its final waypoint and gave a bearing to return to Edge Hill, shortly after the wireless operator heard the warning signal emitted by barrage balloons, P/O Baker took over the controls of the aircraft and turned north to see if they left the area defended by balloons and then to the south but they were still over a built up area. He decided to fly on a easterly heading until they were over the east coast and would descend below the cloud and turn back west. The crew flew east for twenty minutes which was the time it was estimated should take them back over the North Sea. As they descended the pilot turned the aircraft back west, as the aircraft dropped through 1,200ft it emerged from cloud. Pilot Officer Baker could see what looked like more cloud beneath him so turned on the aircraft's landing lamp, the view below did similar to cloud so he turned the light off. Shortly after there was a loud bang and the port engine erupted into flames, the apparent cloud they had seen was probably the high ground of Whitwell Moor. P/O managed to crash land the aircraft just up the moor from where the first impact was made, all those on board got out safely though the aircraft was soon consumed by fire.
A Sgt Morgan has also been listed as being onboard the aircraft but the official documents which are currently available do not list him.
Text by kind permission of Alan L Clark www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk
RESIDENCE OF D. E. KELLY, ATTORNEY.
Date: 1898
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Headlight Engraving Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: D. E. Kelly and his wife Angela resided at 354 Haas Street in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. This house still stands in 2021.
The following biographical sketch of Daniel E. Kelly was published in the Lewis Publishing Company's 1912 history of Porter County, Indiana.
DANIEL. E. KELLY. One of the eminent educators of our time has declared that the legal profession engages the brightest of our intellects. It is certain that no other calling so ruthlessly tries out those who aspire to it, and so quickly sifts the fit from the unfit. This process is somewhat hard upon the ones who are not fitted for the work they have chosen, but those who are able to stand profit by the process so that the lawyer who has once established himself is almost sure of success.
One of Valparaiso's leading attorneys is Daniel E. Kelly, son of Thomas B. and Celia Conley Kelly, both natives of Ireland. They had come to America with their families in the early part of the last century, and were married in Jennings county, Indiana, in 1843. Eleven years later they moved to Chickasaw county, Iowa, where they settled on a farm. It was here that Daniel E. Kelly was born on October 26, 1863. There were thirteen children in the household, and Daniel had five elder brothers and two elder sisters. Eleven of the children are still living in 1912, among them Dr. L. H. Kelly, of Hammond, Indiana.
Both Thomas Kelly and his wife ended their days on the Chickasaw farm, and it was there that Daniel grew up and attended the district school. His training was supplemented by a three years' course in Decorah Institute, a well known school of Iowa, taught at that time by John Breckenridge of Kentucky. In 1884 Mr. Kelly came to Valparaiso and entered the University here, matriculating and graduating in the classical department, having worked his way through the University. In addition to this he studied law with Senator Agnew at Winemac, Indiana, for two years, and in 1891 became the partner of this distinguished attorney, locating at Valparaiso. For a decade they were associated together in the practice, but for the period since 1901 Mr. Kelly has been alone.
On October 7, 1896, Mr. Kelly was married to Miss Angela Marie Donnelly, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Donnelly, of Michigan City, Indiana. There have been six children born of their union, and five of them are now living. These are Angela, Cecilia, Kathleen, Thomas and Daniel Everistus, Jr. A daughter, Eileen, died in infancy.
Unlike many successful lawyers, and especially those of Irish ancestry, Mr. Kelly is not active in politics. This is not because he is lacking in the talent for statecraft which has always marked the people of that race, but because he does not feel that he can spare the time from his profession. He was selected as elector of the tenth congressional district in 1896, but resigned even that office.
In religion Mr. Kelly and his family are communicants of the Catholic church. Mr. Kelly is a member of Valparaiso Council, No. 738, Knights of Columbus, of which he was Grand Knight in 1908, and he is at the present time advocate of the council. He is also a member of Valparaiso Lodge, No. 500, B. P. O. E.
He has extensive business interests in Valparaiso, aside from his legal practice, being a director of the Valparaiso National Bank and of the First Trust Company of that city. Professionally he stands in the front rank of the able body of men who make up the Valparaiso Bar.
Mr. Kelly purchased the law library of former Judge William Johnston, to which he added other works, and is now possessed of a library of two thousand volumes, besides a large private library of miscellaneous works, particularly works of history, biography and philosophy. He is also a member of several historical societies.
In recent years Mr. Kelly has devoted considerable time to the practice of criminal law, and has been retained in many capital cases, among them the famous Walter's case, in which Mr. Kelly defended Jacob Walter, a hotel-keeper of Kouts, Indiana, who had shot and killed Alvin Johnson, his wife's paramour. Mr. Kelly vindicated Mr. Walter upon the great "Unwritten Law," and his able defense in the case won him many compliments. Mr. Kelly was also attorney for Mrs. Drusilla Carr, an aged widow, and secured for her a clear and undisputed title to over one hundred acres of land fronting upon Lake Michigan, of the value of a million dollars. He has a large and extensive practice, and practices in all courts.
Sources:
Bumstead & Company. 1905. Bumstead's Valparaiso City and Porter County Business Directory, Including Rural Routes. Chicago, Illinois: Radtke Brothers. 421 p. [see p. 102]
Grand Trunk Railway. 1898. Headlight: Sights and Scenes Along the Grand Trunk Railway: Valparaiso, Ind.. Volume 3, Number, 6, Page 27.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1912. History of Porter County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People and its Principal Interests. Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company. 881 p. [see pp. 659-663]
Reading, A. H. 1905. The City of Homes, Schools and Churches: A Pictorial Story of Valparaiso, Its People and Its Environs. Valparaiso, Indiana: A. H. Reading. 82 p. [see p. 69]
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LOGIE-BUCHAN, a parish, in the district of Ellon, county of Aberdeen, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Ellon; containing 713 inhabitants.
The word Logie, expressive of a low-lying spot, was given to this place on account of its applicability to the tract in which the church is situated; while the affix is descriptive of the position of the parish in that part of the county called Buchan.
Logie-Buchan Parish Church is located on the southern slope of the River Ythan valley, in gently rolling countryside with small fields, rough grazing and enclosures of trees. There is a narrow trackway and footbridge across the river a short distance to the north. The church stands in a sloping graveyard, bounded by a rubble wall. The large former manse is positioned to the south and the church itself closed recently and a new use had not been found when it was visited (2012).
A church here was granted to Aberdeen Cathedral by David II in 1361, while the current church was built in the late 18th century with later additions and alterations.
Description (exterior)
The church is a small, simple building with little architectural detailing. It is aligned roughly east-west and has harled, rubble walls and a slate roof. There are narrow strips of granite stone around the windows and doors. The church is rectangular on plan, with a small, gabled porch and a lean-to vestry at the west end.
The east elevation has a hipped or piended roof rather than a gable. There are two rectangular windows with simple timber tracery and small panes of leaded glass. There has clearly been alterations carried out at this end of the church, shown by two blocked openings, a doorway and window, in the centre of the east elevation.
The north elevation of the church has four equally-spaced rectangular windows, each with simple tracery and latticed glazing. The opposite south elevation has two larger rectangular windows, towards the centre, again with tracery and latticed glazing.
The west end of the church has a small, gabled porch with a rectangular doorway on the south side, which is the main entrance into the church. There is a rectangular window in the west gable of this porch and a tall chimney rises from the apex, serving a fireplace in the small lean-to vestry extension to the north of the porch. The church has a tall gable at the west end, topped by an ashlar-built bellcote, which has a stone ball finial.
Description (interior)
Some of the fittings remain in the church but are likely to be removed if and when a new use is found for the church, which is no longer in use.
People / Organisations:
Name RoleDates Notes
William RuxtonRecast the interior 1912
Robert MaxwellMade the church bell1728
Events:
Church built on site of older church (1787)
Porch and vestry added to west (1891)
Interior recast (1912)
Logie-Buchan is separated on the east from the German Ocean by the parish of Slains, and is intersected by the river Ythan.
The river abounds with various kinds of trout, also with salmon, eels, lounders, and mussels; and pearls are still occasionally found.
It has a ferry opposite the parish church, where its breadth at low water is about sixty yards; and two boats are kept, one for general passengers, and the other, a larger boat, for the conveyance of the parishioners to church from the northern side.
A tradition has long prevailed that the largest pearl in the crown of Scotland was obtained in the Ythan; and it appears that, about the middle of the last century, £100 were paid by a London jeweller to gentleman in Aberdeen, for pearls found in the river.
Most of the inhabitants of the district are employed in agricultural pursuits, a small brick-work recently established being the only exception.
The great north road from Aberdeen passes through the parish, and the mail and other public coaches travel to and fro daily. On another road, leading to the shipping-port of Newburgh, the tenantry have a considerable traffic in grain, lime, and coal, the last procured from England, and being the chief fuel.
The river Ythan is navigable for lighters often or twelve tons' burthen at high water. The marketable produce of the parish is sent to Aberdeen. Logie- Buchan is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Ellon, synod of Aberdeen, and in the patronage of Mr. Buchan.
The church was built in 1787, and contains 400 sittings.
Cemeteries - Presbyterian / Unitarian
Logie Buchan Parish Church, Logie-Buchan, Church of Scotland
The church of Logie-Buchan was dedicated to St Andrew.
St Andrew's Church was built in 1787 and has been much altered. It contains a 1728 bell.
Logie-Buchan (Aberdeen, Buchan). Also known as Logie Talargy, the church was granted by David II in 1361 to the common fund of the canons of Aberdeen cathedral, and this was confirmed to the uses of the canons by Alexander, bishop of Aberdeen in 1362, both parsonage and vicarage fruits being annexed while the cure was to become a vicarage pensionary.
Although possession was obtained by the dean and chapter, this was subsequently lost, and the church had to be re-annexed in 1437, the previous arrangement being adhered to, with both parsonage and vicarage remaining annexed.
St Andrew's Kirk, 1787. Undistinguished externally, porch 1891, inside original ceiling with Adam-like centrepiece and two-light Gothic windows, part of 1912 recasting, William Buxton. Pulpit was originally in the centre of the N wall with a horseshoe gallery bearing the Buchan coat of arms (George Reid, Peterhead, carver). Monuments to Thomas (d. 1819) and Robert (d. 1825) Buchan.
Bell, 1728, Robert Maxwell. Church bought by Captain David Buchan to ensure access and survival.
Kirkyard: plain ashlar gatepiers and rubble walls; some table tombs.
Burning for western pine beetle control. In this method the bark is peeled from the log and falls on both sides of it. It is then burned without further attention. This method involves less work and time but is only applicable during parts of the season when fire hazard is low. Jenny Creek, Oregon.
Photo by: J.E. Patterson
Date: June 1920
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-2314
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For related historical information see:
www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476
Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Date: Circa 1900
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This photograph is believed to have been taken facing south on present day Main Street (National Forest Service Road 284) with Sally Ann Creek Road to the photographer's immediate right.
Bailey provides the following description of this photograph:
Clearwater, first town reached on the Old Nez Perce Trail.
Source:
Bailey, Robert G. 1935. River of No Return. Lewiston, Idaho: Bailey-Blake Printing Company. 515 p. [see p. 56]
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Lowell, Indiana.
WILLIAM SIGLER,
AT SIGHT,
Will Pay to Bearer
FIVE CENTS
In Current Funds, when presented in sums
of one or more Dollars.
Wm. Sigler
Date: October 31, 1862
Source Type: Obsolete Scrip
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: A. M. Wood, Printer, 23 Clark-st. Chicago
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This obsolete scrip is listed in Wolka et al. as No. 460-1 and rated on their rarity scale as R-7 and Wolka as 1450-01 with a rarity noted as R7. The rarity scale ranges from R-1 to R-7, with R-7 indicating that only one to five specimens of a scrip are known to exist.
The specimen here is the same specimen displayed as the plate in Wolka's (2018) book concerning Indiana notes and scrip.
William Sigler also produced scrip is denominations of 25¢ and 50¢.
The following is taken from the Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana (1904, pp. 76-77):
"WILLIAM SIGLER was a merchant for many years at Lowell. He was born December 31, 1822, in Clarksburg, which is now in [Harrison County] West Virginia, and so was fifteen years of age when the Sigler family settled in this county. In May, 1848, he was married to Miss Margaret Lee. In 1881 he removed from Lake county to Englewood [Cook County, Illinois] and afterward to La Grange [Cook County, Illinois], where he died in [July 16] 1902, nearly eighty years of age.
Of the nine members of the Sigler family of 1837 one only is now living, Mr. Eli Sigler, of Hebron, for many years one of the principal business men of that town. He has a son in Crown Point, Mr. E. Sigler, jeweler, and a daughter, Mrs. W.B. Brown: and William Sigler has a son in this county, Charles Sigler, the hotel builder at Cedar Lake. Samuel Sigler, the pioneer, has in the county other grandchildren. His descendants are to be found in other family lines."
William Sigler started his general store at Driscoll’s Corners in Lowell in 1854. The 1860 Federal Census for Lowell, Lake County, Indiana, lists Sigler’s occupation as “Merchant.” Sigler was also very active in cattle and hogs, operating a feedlot in the northeast part of Lowell. In 1879, Sigler went out of business in Lowell and moved to Crown Point. He then relocated at Englewood, Cook County, Chicago in 1881. William Sigler is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
The printer of this note, A. M. Wood, began his printing business in Chicago in 1856. He was accidentally killed on May 19, 1886, after he fell through the elevator hatchway of his company's new, but incomplete, building located at 184 Monroe Street. He was a 55 year old bachelor at the time of his death.
Source Information:
The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; May 21, 1886; Volume 46, Page 8, Column 1. Column titled "The City."
Ball, Timothy H. 1904. Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana with a Compendium of History, 1834-1904. Chicago, Illinois: The Lewis Publishing Company. [see pp. 76-77]
Wolka, Wendell. 2018. A History of Indiana Obsolete Bank Notes and Scrip. Sun City Center, Florida: Wendell Wolka. 900 p. [see p. 488]
Wolka, Wendell A., Jack M. Vorhies, and Donald A. Schramm. 1978. Indiana: Obsolete Notes and Scrip. Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications. 306 p. [see p. 156]
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RESIDENCE OF J. W. BRUMMITT IN PINE TOWNSHIP.
Date: 1895
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Lee and Lee
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The following biography of John W. Brummitt is contained in Goodspeed Brothers' 1894 "Pictorial and Biographical Record of La Porte, Porter, Lake and Starke Counties, Indiana."
JOHN W. BRUMMITT. Porter County, Indiana, has many fine farms and agricultural tracts. There are comparatively few inferior tracts, and each farmer tries to outdo his neighbor in the raising of crops and the improvement of his land. Of the many fine attractive places none are more conspicuous than that belonging to our subject on which he was born, September 12, 1859, his parents being William and Mary (Lucas) Brummitt. The paternal grandfather, Aaron Brummitt, was born near Leeds, or Ossett Common, England, and as a means of livelihood he followed the occupation of a weaver. He died at about the age of eighty years, an earnest and consistent member of the Episcopal Church. His wife was a Miss Wilby and she lived to the age of about eighty-five years. Their children were as follows: Henry, Reuben, Mark, James, William, Mary and Ann. Henry lives at Furnessville, Indiana, Reuben died in Canada; James died in Florida; Ann (Early) lives in Waterloo, Canada, and Mary (Teale) and Mark still reside in England. William Brummitt was born in England, August 23, 1833, and like his father before him was a weaver by trade. He was married in England in 1854, and in the spring of 1856 went to Canada where he remained one season. In the fall of the same year he removed to Chicago, and a few days later came to Furnessville, Indiana, where he purchased and located on three acres of land, which cost him $24, and on which the subject of this sketch is now residing. From time to time he added to this tract until he became the owner 360 acres, which he cleared and improved. He has owned and sold other tracts of land and now has in his name 100 acres, twenty of which are devoted to the cultivation of strawberries. In 1886 he removed to New Carlisle and engaged in the agricultural implement and hardware business, with his two sons, Arthur and Mark, but the duties of this calling were to arduous for him, and in the 1893 he retired and invested in 240 acres of land in St. Joseph County, and in addition to this and the estate above mentioned, owns valuable land in Dakota, Michigan and Chesterton, Indiana, and is a money lender, all of which has been the result of his own energy as he landed in this country with but little means. He has served as Justice of the Peace of Pine Township for the past seventeen years and one term in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Up to 1876 he was a Republican in politics, since which time he has been an earnest supporter of the principles of Democracy. He and his wife have had born to them seven children: Elizabeth, who died on the ocean while enroute for this country; Mark L., John W., Maria, a school teacher; Jennie (Goodykoontz), whose husband is a minister of the Christian Church; Emily (Loring) of Valparaiso, and Arthur R. The parents of these children are members of long standing of the Christian Church, and socially the father is a member of A. F. & A. M. In the fall of 1864 he enlisted in the Ninth Indiana Infantry, and was discharged with his regiment at Nashville, Tennessee. John W. Brummitt was born and reared on the farm on which he is now residing. He first attended the district schools in the vicinity of his home and afterward attended the Valparaiso Normal College, after which he taught penmanship for some time. When he was ten years old his father kindly gave him the opportunity of raising stock of his own, and by the time he had attained to the age of twenty-one, the sum accruing from this business amounted to $1,300, $300 of which he spent in attending college. The remainder -$1,000 - he purchased 246 acres of his father, for a consideration of $8,500, and has since made the most of his money in the raising of stock and fruit. He is a wide-awake and enterprising young man, is intelligent and well posted on all topics of the times and in 1890 was elected assessor of his township, and appointed notary of his county, on the Democratic ticket. September 26, 1880, he was united in marriage with Emma Newman, who was born at Furnessville, March 8, 1861, a daughter of Ernest and Minnie Newman, natives of Germany, their union taking place in the State of Michigan. To them a family of five children have been given: Marion P., Ida P., Jessie M., Emily M., and Neva R. The mother of these children is an earnest member of the Christian Church.
Sources:
Goodspeed Brothers. 1894. Pictorial and Biographical Record of La Porte, Porter, Lake and Starke Counties, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Brothers. 569 p. [see pp. 330-331]
Lee and Lee. 1895. Lee and Lee's Atlas of Porter County, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Lee and Lee. 81 p.
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Camp View
Production Date: 1940
Source Type: Spiral Bound Booklet
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Company 229, Camp Willow Creek F-188 of the United States Civilian Conservation Corps was located southwest of Emida, Benewah County, Idaho, on Willow Creek at the base of Harvard Mountain.
Camp Willow Creek F-188 was responsible for several major projects that exist today. Most notably, it was responsible for creating the North-South Ski Bowl and ski shelter and the development of Laird Park into a recreational area. The camp also erected telephone lines and constructed roads, trails, fish ponds, and fire towers. Burned over lands were planted in trees by members of the camp, and blister rust control was a major camp task.
Officers that commanded Company 229 included Captain McGuire, Lieutenant Miller, Lieutenant Jones, Lieutenant A. A. Frambach, and Lieutenant Alden C. Russell, Jr.
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Date: Circa 1870
Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Lorenzo D. Judkins
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.
On the reverse of the carte de visite is printed the following information:
L. D. JUDKINS,
ART CHAMBERS
16½
E. Washington St.
INDIANAPOLIS,
IND.
The photograph was taken by Lorenzo D. Judkins of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. Judkins operated a photography studio in Indianapolis from 1868 to about 1880.
Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.
Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.
In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.
DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.
DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).
DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.
DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.
Source:
Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey & Company. 771 p. [see pp. 255-256]
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www.sapadventures.com/ The Inca Trail is a magnificent, well preserved Inca Trail route which connects Machu Picchu with what once were other regions of the Inca Empire, and today it is one of the world’s most popular treks. This four-day walk goes from the highlands of 4,200mts and down through the cloud forests to finally arrive at Machu Picchu - 2,380mts.
DAY 01. - Between 06:00 and 06:30 we pick you up at your hotel in our private bus. Ensure you have your original passport and ISIC student card (if applicable – for a discount on entree fee to Machu Picchu).
The journey by bus to km 82 (the starting point for the Inca Trail) takes approximately 3 hours. Once we get there and are all ready to go, this first day will have us walking mostly through the valley. It starts at 2380m with a small climb to a plateau overlooking the Incan site of Llactapata and rewards you with superb views of Mount Veronica. Walking times are always approximate depending on weather conditions, group ability and other factors, but generally you will walk about 2-3 hours before lunch. Then after lunch we walk on just past the village of Wayllabamba to reach our first campsite at 3000m.
Approx 14km, 6 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 02. - Day 2 is the most difficult day as you Inca Trail walk from about 3000m to 4200m — the highest pass of the trek (known as Dead Woman’s Pass – but don’t be discouraged!). You can walk at your own pace and stop to get your breath whenever you like. You’ll find your energy returns once you continue down to the valley of Pacaymayo, where we camp at 3600m.
You can hire a porter from the village of Wayllabamba to carry your pack to the top of this pass for approximately 70 soles. If you wish to do so you must organize and pay this money directly to the person who carries your items, and please check your belongings upon receiving them at the end of this service as these people are not Sap Adventures staff.
This is the coldest night at Inca Trail; between +2/+4 degrees Celsius (in December) and -3/-5 degrees Celsius (in June). Approx 12km, 7 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 03.- Day 3 is exceptionally beautiful because of the ruins you will witness and the incredible stone Inca Trail you walk one, and also because there is a lot more downhill than uphill! However, there are about 2000 stairs descending from the ruins of Phuyupatamarca to those of Wiñaywayna, so take care with your knees. If you have had knee or ankle injuries an extra porter is recommended so that you are not carrying extra weight and overstressing your joints. There is a guided tour of all the ruins on the way. Camping is usually at Wiñaywayna 2700 mtrs.
Take extra care of your personal belongings at this campsite as all the tours campsites are nearby. As usual, always keep your daypack containing your valuables with you. The only hot shower on the Inca Trail is on this third night at Wiñaywayna. There is a hostel near the campsite with an 8min hot shower for 5 soles, and a bar and restaurant where you can purchase bottled water.
Approx 16km, 6 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
DAY 04.- We get up extremely early to arrive at the magical Intipunku "The Gate of the Sun" as the first rays begin illuminating the lost city of Machu Picchu down bellow. A further 20 min walk down from here takes us to the famous view from the terraces at the end of the trail. It is a good time to take pictures before the 10:30 crowds arrive. Your tour of Machu Picchu should last about 2 hours and finish between 10:30 and 11:00am. Then you have free time to climb Huayna Picchu if you wish (This is the famous peak in the background of most images of Machu Picchu. The trek is about 90 minutes). A maximum of 400 hikers can climb this mountain per day so if you are determined then start immediately after your tour! Or, of course, you may simply just collapse under a tree and quietly reflect in amazement at the mystery, the architectural achievement and beauty of Machu Picchu.
From Machu Picchu, it is a pleasant walk through sub-tropical jungle down to Aguas Calientes (about 45 mins), but if you are weary you may also take a bus – the $7 bus ticket is included and your guide will give you the ticket.
Once in Aguas Calientes you can have a hot shower, and then store your backpack while you go to have lunch, visit the hot springs or shop around the village.
If you are not extending your stay for one night in Aguas Calientes*, you will leave around 6pm to return to Cusco by train or by a combination of train & bus. Please note that during the high season there are a number of different departure times for the trains that run only to Ollantaytambo, from where buses run onwards till Cusco. The type of return journey depends simply on availability. You will arrive back in Cusco around 9 - 9.30pm.
Approx 7km, 2 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
Moscow, the Pride of Paradise Valley in Mid-winter
Date: Circa 1900
Source Type: Stereocard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Olaf P. Larson
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This image is taken from a stereocard published by Olaf P. Larson from Squirrel, Fremont County, Idaho.
The photograph was taken in the northwest quarter of Moscow facing southeast. The hill to the left is Tomer Butte, while the ridge on the right is the eastern end of Paradise Ridge. The Latah County courthouse is visible in the center of the image; it is the building with the cupola. Though that particular courthouse building no longer stands, it is still remains the location of the court courthouse today.
Olaf P. Larson was a photographer specializing in stereoscope photography. From 1895 to about June 1900, Larson resided in Moscow, owned and operated a photography studio, and is believed to have attended the University of Idaho. He later moved to Squirrel, Idaho, where he continued his photography business and also farmed.
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STEAMER COLFAX - MOUNT BALDY IN VIEW
Date: Circa 1908
Source Type: Photograph Booklet
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Augusta Anderson, Inland Printing Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Remark: Libraries holding copies of The Shadowy St. Joe indicate that this souvenir book was published circa 1910. After researching the life of Augusta Anderson, however, it is much more likely that the book was published in 1908 or perhaps 1907. In addition, it is very likely that Augusta Anderson was neither the author of the book nor the photographer of the images contained within the book.
Augusta Anderson was born circa 1885. On February 13, 1908, in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, Augusta married Fred D. Straffin. Straffin was a fairly well-known photographer who operated from a Spokane photography studio. Straffin published a souvenir book of the Potlatch lumber mill located in Potlatch, Latah County, Idaho, in 1907 that is very similar in design to The Shadowy St. Joe. Straffin also published a souvenir book of St. Maries, Benewah County, Idaho, which is located along the St. Joe River, that is also of nearly the same design as The Shadowy St. Joe.
Straffin was somewhat under duress when he married Augusta Anderson. According to a news item published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on February 8, 1908, Straffin had been “charged with the seduction of Augusta Anderson, 23 years of age…. Straffin claimed that the girl yielded readily to his request that she live with him, and denied that, except in a joking way, that he had ever promised to marry her. The girl denies these statements emphatically, alleging that she took the matter seriously. She broke down several times in court.”
It is learned from a June 18, 1908, news item also published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle that Straffin and Anderson had married on February 13, 1908, so that Straffin could avoid jail and have the seduction case dismissed in superior court. This same news item mentions that Augusta was now seeking a divorce after four months of marriage because Fred had “been drunk much of the time since their marriage and has not contributed to her support.” It also notes that before the marriage that Augusta had been a waitress and specifically states that “The groom was a photographer. He offered to teach the girl the art of the offer was accepted. Before the girl had mastered her trade, however, Straffin was arrested for intimate relations with her, and was bound over to the superior court to answer to the charge.”
The 1908 divorce case apparently was dismissed since there appears in the October 11, 1910, issue of The Press, published in Spokane, a notice of a pending divorce suit between Augusta and Fred D. Straffin. The Spokane Daily Chronicle’s January 19, 1911, issue reports that the divorce was granted and states that “She [August Straffin] charged that she was deserted on the day of her wedding, which occurred in Spokane in 1908, and that her husband had never contributed to her support. She was permitted to resume her maiden name, Augusta Anderson.”
Augusta Straffin appears in the 1908 city directory for Spokane with Fred as the proprietor of the Rembrandt Studio, while later directories do not tie Augusta to any photography business. Collectively, this information suggests that Augusta Anderson had neither taken the photographs appearing in The Shadowy St. Joe – there is no evidence that she was fully trained as a photographer – nor had she compiled the book as an author. Rather, evidence strongly suggests that Fred D. Straffin was responsible for the development and publication of The Shadowy St. Joe and perhaps had August listed as author as an inducement to initiate or maintain an intimate relationship with her. It is possible the Augusta had taken the photographs and authored the book while Fred was occupied with drinking and desertion of his wife, but this calls into question as to how Augusta was fully trained as a photographer.
Fred D. Straffin was born in 1869 and died April 23, 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah; he is buried at the Salt Lake City Cemetery in an unmarked grave. His death certificate indicates that he was a widow at the time of his death, suggesting that he may have remarried after being divorced from Augusta.
Little is known concerning August Anderson after her divorce from Fred. A notice of marriage licenses granted in Spokane County published in The Spokesman-Review on February 11, 1914, mentions that an Adam Noble or Spokane was granted a license to marry Augusta Anderson, also of Spokane. It is assumed that this is likely the same Augusta Anderson that married and divorced Fred D. Straffin.
Sources:
Anderson, Augusta. Circa 1908. The Shadowy St. Joe. Spokane, Washington: The Inland Printing Company. 54 p.
The Press, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; October 11, 1910; Volume 8, Number 312, Page 7, Column 5. Column titled “Three Divorce Suits.”
Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; February 8, 1908; Volume 22, Number 139, Page 3, Column 5. Column titled “He Wronged a Woman.”
Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; June 18, 1908; Volume 22, Number 251, Page 4, Column 5. Column titled “Wedded to Dodge Jail; Divorce.”
Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; January 19, 1911; Volume 25, Number 124, Page 7, Column 6. Column titled “Deserted Bride is Given Divorce.”
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; December 10, 1907; Volume 25, Number 178, Page 18, Column 3. Column titled “Takes Pictures of Potlatch Mill.”
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; February 11, 1914; Volume 31, Number 241, Page 7, Column 2. Column titled “City and County Records. Marriage Licenses.”
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Production Date: October 10, 1967
Source Type: Photograph
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Unknown (#H33680)
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Boeing President William M. Allen (second from right) accepting 1967 James S. Cogswell Award from the director of Defense Supply Agents for the Department of Defense. The other three men are unidentified.
William McPherson Allen was born September 1, 1900, in Lolo, Montana. After earning a degree at the University of Montana, he enrolled at Harvard University where he earned a degree on law in 1925. In 1930, Allen joined the board of directors of Boeing Air Transport while being employed as an attorney with Donworth, Todd & Higgins, a Seattle law firm.
The unexpected death of Boeing president Philip G. Johnson in 1944 required that Boeing's chairman of the board, Claire Egtvedt, appoint a replacement. Egtvedt turned to Bill Allen, who initially refused to accept the position because he felt that he was unqualified to head the company. Allen, however, later accepted the position and served as the Chief Executive Officer (President) of The Boeing Company from September 1, 1945, to April 29, 1968. He then served as chairman of the company from 1968 to 1972.
Under William M. Allen's leadership, The Boeing Company launched the Boeing 367-80 (Dash 80), a jet-powered passenger airplane and the predecessor of the Boeing 707. Allen was also responsible for the development and launch of the Boeing 727, Boeing 737, and Boeing 747.
William M. Allen died on October 28, 1985. In 2003, an article published in Fortune ranked William McPherson Allen second among "The 10 Greatest CEOs of All Time," the top CEO being Charles Coffin, the founder of General Electric Company.
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Production Date: 1941
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: George McKinnon, The Owl Drug Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This photograph is one of ten photographs and companion negatives contained in a packet. The photographs were developed by The Owl Drug Company located in Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho. The customer's name, written in pencil on the packet, is Geo McKinnon. Also written in pencil on this photograph packet is "pictures of camp 14 winter of 1941 & 1942."
Camp 14 of Potlatch Forests, Inc. was located in the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 2, Township 39 North, Range 6 East Boise Meridian, at the confluence of the East Fork of Beaver Creek and Sheep Mountain Creek. Sheep Mountain Saddle Forest Service Road and National Forest Road 251 intersect about 200 feet east of this confluence. Camp 14 was located approximately 11.75 miles northeast of Headquarter, Clearwater County, Idaho.
George H. McKinnon served as Camp 14 foreman from 1939 to his death at his home in Lewiston on August 27, 1942. George's death notice mentions that he was "the first P. F. I. camp foreman in the Clearwater white pine belt."
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Farbo, in his history of Potlatch lumber camps, writes the following concerning Camp 14 (1930-1962):
"One of the longest occupied camps in the railroad logging history of the Headquarters [Idaho] side. This camp began as a tent-railroad car camp and was relocated at least twice during its tenure. After partial destruction by structural fires, the rail car camp was replaced with a pre-fabricated board building-passenger rail car complex.
After Morrison-Knudson completed the track to Camp 6 in 1928, the Clearwater Timber Company took over the grade construction to the end of the line -- the East Fork of Beaver Creek. High priority prevailed in spite of swampy flats and steep, rocky canyons and the rail reached the Camp 14 site in 1930.
Very little information is available about the camp in the 1930's. The depression years, 1932-1935, probably curtailed operations at this "end of the line" camp. From 1935 to 1943, logging contractors were active and registered a total of 31,512 man days of work. The Family Tree [a publication of Potlatch Forests, Inc.] began publication in the fall of 1936 and reported that 9 1/2 miles of truck roads and landings were under construction in November. George McKinnon was camp boss.
Logging was in full bore during 1940-1941. The peak crew numbered 185 men and logging took place on the Harlan Creek spur, Sheep Mountain Creek spur, Beaver Creek above Bonner Creek and a dray haul from Camp W. Skidding was by horse, cat, railroad jammer and truck jammer. Volume logged in 1940 was 13.9 M.M. and in 1941, 18.5 M.M.
In 1942, a total of 515 men worked out of Camp 14. Of this total 394 were bachelors and 121 were married. Eighteen men with the name of "Johnson" were on the payroll. Logs were trucked from Camp W and 14 scalers were employed at the reload and rail landings. Foreman George McKinnon died -- a long time, faithful and competent employee. Two crews were placed on the trail run to try 'gyppo logging.'"
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The following death notice for George McKinnon appeared in the August 1942 issue of The Family Tree, a publication of Potlatch Forest, Inc.:
"GEORGE McKINNON, 1880-1942
Mirthful, mischievous eyes instantly told one his nature. Spinner of tall yarns, stooped by hard labor, but young in spirit with a kindly, humorous way about him. He was more than just the foreman of a logging camp and his passing is a loss to all the men of Clearwater and to those others that knew him. A part of the early logging days of the Clearwater goes with him and although he will long be remembered as foreman of the first Clearwater camps, his leaving marks an indefinable break from those early days. A native of Nova Scotia, he was a credit to the industry that knew him best."
Sources:
Anonymous. August 1942. George McKinnon, 1880-1942. The Family Tree 6(11):7. [The Family Tree was a publication of Potlatch Forests, Inc. and was printed in Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho.]
Farbo, Tom. 1996. White Pine Wobblies and Wannigans: A History of Potlatch Lumber Camps, North Central Idaho, 1903-1986. Lewiston, Idaho: Steeley Print and Binding. 362 p. [see pp. 245-249]
Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; August 28, 1942; Volume 56, Number 293, Second Section, Page 5, Column 5. Column titled "George McKinnon Funeral Thursday."
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www.sapadventures.com/ The Inca Trail is a magnificent, well preserved Inca Trail route which connects Machu Picchu with what once were other regions of the Inca Empire, and today it is one of the world’s most popular treks. This four-day walk goes from the highlands of 4,200mts and down through the cloud forests to finally arrive at Machu Picchu - 2,380mts.
DAY 01. - Between 06:00 and 06:30 we pick you up at your hotel in our private bus. Ensure you have your original passport and ISIC student card (if applicable – for a discount on entree fee to Machu Picchu).
The journey by bus to km 82 (the starting point for the Inca Trail) takes approximately 3 hours. Once we get there and are all ready to go, this first day will have us walking mostly through the valley. It starts at 2380m with a small climb to a plateau overlooking the Incan site of Llactapata and rewards you with superb views of Mount Veronica. Walking times are always approximate depending on weather conditions, group ability and other factors, but generally you will walk about 2-3 hours before lunch. Then after lunch we walk on just past the village of Wayllabamba to reach our first campsite at 3000m.
Approx 14km, 6 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 02. - Day 2 is the most difficult day as you Inca Trail walk from about 3000m to 4200m — the highest pass of the trek (known as Dead Woman’s Pass – but don’t be discouraged!). You can walk at your own pace and stop to get your breath whenever you like. You’ll find your energy returns once you continue down to the valley of Pacaymayo, where we camp at 3600m.
You can hire a porter from the village of Wayllabamba to carry your pack to the top of this pass for approximately 70 soles. If you wish to do so you must organize and pay this money directly to the person who carries your items, and please check your belongings upon receiving them at the end of this service as these people are not Sap Adventures staff.
This is the coldest night at Inca Trail; between +2/+4 degrees Celsius (in December) and -3/-5 degrees Celsius (in June). Approx 12km, 7 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 03.- Day 3 is exceptionally beautiful because of the ruins you will witness and the incredible stone Inca Trail you walk one, and also because there is a lot more downhill than uphill! However, there are about 2000 stairs descending from the ruins of Phuyupatamarca to those of Wiñaywayna, so take care with your knees. If you have had knee or ankle injuries an extra porter is recommended so that you are not carrying extra weight and overstressing your joints. There is a guided tour of all the ruins on the way. Camping is usually at Wiñaywayna 2700 mtrs.
Take extra care of your personal belongings at this campsite as all the tours campsites are nearby. As usual, always keep your daypack containing your valuables with you. The only hot shower on the Inca Trail is on this third night at Wiñaywayna. There is a hostel near the campsite with an 8min hot shower for 5 soles, and a bar and restaurant where you can purchase bottled water.
Approx 16km, 6 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
DAY 04.- We get up extremely early to arrive at the magical Intipunku "The Gate of the Sun" as the first rays begin illuminating the lost city of Machu Picchu down bellow. A further 20 min walk down from here takes us to the famous view from the terraces at the end of the trail. It is a good time to take pictures before the 10:30 crowds arrive. Your tour of Machu Picchu should last about 2 hours and finish between 10:30 and 11:00am. Then you have free time to climb Huayna Picchu if you wish (This is the famous peak in the background of most images of Machu Picchu. The trek is about 90 minutes). A maximum of 400 hikers can climb this mountain per day so if you are determined then start immediately after your tour! Or, of course, you may simply just collapse under a tree and quietly reflect in amazement at the mystery, the architectural achievement and beauty of Machu Picchu.
From Machu Picchu, it is a pleasant walk through sub-tropical jungle down to Aguas Calientes (about 45 mins), but if you are weary you may also take a bus – the $7 bus ticket is included and your guide will give you the ticket.
Once in Aguas Calientes you can have a hot shower, and then store your backpack while you go to have lunch, visit the hot springs or shop around the village.
If you are not extending your stay for one night in Aguas Calientes*, you will leave around 6pm to return to Cusco by train or by a combination of train & bus. Please note that during the high season there are a number of different departure times for the trains that run only to Ollantaytambo, from where buses run onwards till Cusco. The type of return journey depends simply on availability. You will arrive back in Cusco around 9 - 9.30pm.
Approx 7km, 2 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
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Title: The domestic encyclopaedia, or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 4)
Creator: Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Creator: Mease, James, 1771-1846, editor
Creator: Shallus, Francis, engraver
Creator: Birch, William Young, 1764-1837, publisher
Creator: Small, Abraham, 1764?-1829, publisher
Creator: Carr, Robert, 1778-1866, printer
Publisher: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street ; Robert Carr, printer
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Date: 1803
Language: eng
Description: Description based on imperfect copies: NLM lacking vols. 3 and 5 of the 1803 edition
A variant of the 1803 imprint: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803
The 1803 edition not in Shaw & Shoemaker; cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 5592: "Vol 1-3, 5 dated 1804 [i.e. only vol. 4 dated 1803]"
Another "First American edition" was published in 1804. Cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 7772
On t.p., "In five volumes" is surrounded on top and bottom by double rules
Engraved plates, mostly signed: "F. Shallus sculp."
NLM Copy 1 imperfect: lacking v. 3, 5; untrimmed edges; many unopened bolts
NLM Copy 2: v. 4 only
NUC, pre-1956
Provenance: inscribed on front fly-leaves of vols. 1 and 2: "Mr. [?] H. Cocke, price $2.50 p vol., 1803"
Copies bound uniformly in blue-paper-coverd paste-board
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Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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Production Date: 1940
Source Type: Spiral Bound Booklet
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Company 229, Camp Willow Creek F-188 of the United States Civilian Conservation Corps was located southwest of Emida, Benewah County, Idaho, on Willow Creek at the base of Harvard Mountain.
Camp Willow Creek F-188 was responsible for several major projects that exist today. Most notably, it was responsible for creating the North-South Ski Bowl and ski shelter and the development of Laird Park into a recreational area. The camp also erected telephone lines and constructed roads, trails, fish ponds, and fire towers. Burned over lands were planted in trees by members of the camp, and blister rust control was a major camp task.
Officers that commanded Company 229 included Captain McGuire, Lieutenant Miller, Lieutenant Jones, Lieutenant A. A. Frambach, and Lieutenant Alden C. Russell, Jr.
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Postal Cover from DeSmet, Idaho
Date: 1896
Source Type: Postal Cover
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Not applicable
Postmark: September 21, 1896, DeSmet, Idaho
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This envelope was posted by Joseph M. Caruana of DeSmet, Idaho, to A. P. W. Paper Company of Chicago, Illinois.
The A. P. W. Paper Company was the abbreviated name of the Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Company, a manufacturer of perforated, rolled toilet paper.
Joseph M. Caruana was the priest in charge of the Catholic's Sacred Heart Mission at DeSmet, Idaho. The 1900 Federal Census of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation (then part of Kootenai County) indicates that Father Caruana was born in August 1863 in Italy, immigrating to the United States in 1854. The census record states that Father Caruana's occupation was that of "Catholic priest & Supt. of Schools." It is known that Father Caruana led the affairs of the mission for over forty years.
Scott Catalog Number of Postage Stamp: U312 (Washington Plimpton Envelope) and 272.
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White Cross Gold Mining Company, Limited
Prospectus
Page 19
Date: 1902
Source Type: Pamphlet
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Euclid Printing Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The articles of incorporation for the the White Cross Gold Mining Company, Limited, were subscribed to on June 2, 1900, and recorded in Latah County, Idaho, on June 5, 1900, by Oscar Larson, Latah County Recorder.
Six individuals were listed in the articles of incorporation, each owning 100,000 shares of the company valued at $10,000 (10¢ per share). These individuals were Dr. Frank Dunlap, Daniel S. Elder, R. L. Johnson, Hans J. Lestoe, J. W. Sherer, and F. C. Smith, all of whom were listed as residing in Moscow, Latah County, Idaho.
The White Cross Gold Mine is located in the SW¼ of SW¼ of SW¼ of Section 13, Township 40 North, Range 5 West of Boise Meridian.
While the mine did produce gold ore, the volume was insufficient to cover mining costs and the company ceased operation.
The Gray Eagle Gold Mining Company was located near the White Cross Mine but was not as fully developed as the White Cross Mine.
Sources:
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; March 31, 1901; Volume 18, Number 281, Page 7, Column 2. Column titled "White Cross Will Output. Moscow Property Making Test Shipment -- Election of Officers."
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; April 15, 1908; Volume 25, Number 305, Page 8, Column 1. Column titled "Mining Claims Contested. Woman's Stone and Timber Property Cause of Trouble. Mrs. Mary Hannah Disputes With White Cross and Gray Eagle Properties."
White Cross Gold Mining Company, Ltd. 1902. The White Cross Gold Mining Company, Ltd. Prospectus. Cleveland, Ohio: Euclid Printing Company. 20 p.
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Date: Circa 1920
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Bailey provides the following description of this photograph:
Golden, central Idaho's latest mining camp, located in the Clearwater River canyon, just north of Buffalo Hump.
Source:
Bailey, Robert G. 1935. River of No Return. Lewiston, Idaho: Bailey-Blake Printing Company. 515 p. [see p. 406]
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Date: Circa 1890s
Source Type: Photograph
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: J. M. Harkless
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Gordon D. Rogers
Remark: William (Bill) Michaels of Porter is seated at the far left in this photograph.
Printed in the Chesterton Tribune on June 27, 1896, was the following notice:
"J. M. Harkless, photographer, is making a great many photographs for Chesterton people, and giving splendid satisfaction. He will be here until July 10, and those wishing work done should call at once to get it done. Gallery in Shaper's building Chesterton."
The following obituary for William Michaels was published in The Vidette-Messenger in 1958:
WILLIAM J. MICHAELS
CHESTERTON -- William J. Michaels, 85, Lake Worth, Fla., died at West Palm Beach Saturday, after a long illness, it was reported here today. He had lived in Porter most of his life, moving to Florida in 1939.
He was a past master of Calumet lodge 379, F&AM and a member of Lakeland lodge in Florida.
He was born in Germany June 17, 1873. His wife, Eva, preceded him in death. Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Fred Lorenz, Chesterton, one sister, Mrs. Henry Donovan, Gary, four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Services will be held at the White Funeral home in Chesterton, Saturday at 2 p. m., with the Rev. H. J. Heubschmann, of St. John's Church of Christ, Chesterton, officiating. Burial will be made in Chesterton cemetery.
Friends may call at the White Funeral home in Chesterton after 2 p. m. Friday until time of services.
Source
The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; December 24, 1958; Volume 32, Number 135, Page 6, Column 7
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H. D. SCHOFIELD & CO.,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Choice Groceries, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.
Crisman, Ind.
Date: February 10, 1894
Source Type: Letterhead
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This letterhead was used by Herbert Dudley Scofield's general merchandise store located in Crisman, Porter County, Indiana. Note that the letterhead spells Scofield's surname as Schofield. Contemporary newspaper articles, postcards inscribed with his name, the sign posted outside his store, his death certificate, and even his tombstone, however, spell his surname as Scofield.
Herbert Dudley Scofield was born in Cook County, Illinois, on February 22, 1860, the son of John and Emma (Montrose) Scofield. At the age of seven, Scofield moved to Crisman, Porter County, Indiana, to learn the agricultural trade under the guidance of Burrill Hall. On May 30, 1893, Herbert married Augusta Matilda Humphrey.
In 1892, Scofield purchased a small stock of goods and established a merchandise business in Crisman that grew into a well-established and large general store. Beginning in 1893, Scofield served as the postmaster of Crisman. Scofield passed away at Crisman on July 20, 1928, as a result of arteriosclerosis, and was interred in the McCool Cemetery in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
Written on this letterhead are the lyrics to an 1892 song by Charles Kassell Harris, titled After the Ball. The song centers on an old bachelor recounting the story of his long-lost love to his young niece. Conductor and composer John Philip Sousa would play the song when he toured the country with his band, quickly making the song popular nationwide. It was the biggest hit of the 1890s with over five million copies of After the Ball sheet music being sold in that decade alone. It was reportedly the first song to ever sell over one million copies. Here is a link to Kathryn Burke singing the song After the Ball.
AFTER THE BALL
1 A little maiden climbed an old man’s knees,
Begged for a story -- "Do uncle, please!
Why are you single; why live alone?
Have you no babies; have you no home?"
"I had a sweetheart, years, years ago;
Where she is now, pet, you will soon know.
Last to the story, I’ll tell it all:
I believed her faithless after the ball.“
Chorus
After the ball is over, after the break of morn --
After the dancers' leaving, after the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching, if you could read them all;
Many the hopes that have vanished after the ball.
2 Bright lights were flashing in the grand ballroom,
Softly the music, playing sweet tunes.
There came my sweetheart, my love, my own, --
"I wish some water; leave me alone.
When I returned, dear, there stood a man,
Kissing my sweetheart as lovers can.
Down fell the glass, pet, broken, that’s all,
Just as my heart was after the ball. -- chorus.
3 Long years have passed, child, I have never wed,
True to my lost love, though she is dead.
She tried to tell me, tried to explain;
I would not listen, pleadings were vain;
One day a letter came from that man --
He was her brother, the letter ran --
That’s why I’m lonely, no home at all;
I broke her heart, pet, after the ball." -- (chorus)
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RESIDENCE OF M. L. McCLELLAND, VALPARAISO.
Date: 1895
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Lee and Lee
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The Marquis L. McLelland house once stood at 400 North Franklin Avenue in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.
The following biography of Marquis L. McClelland is contained in Goodspeed and Blanchard's 1882 Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated."
MARQUIS L. McCLELLAND, insurance agent, was born in La Fayette, Ind., February 26, 1830. He is a son of John T. and Sarah (McCarl) McClelland, who were natives of Washington County, Penn. John T. McClelland was born in the year 1800, and his wife in 1804. They were married in their native State, and from there moved to La Fayette, Ind., in 1828. In 1831, Mr. McC. Started west through South Bend, Niles and to Chicago. The spring of 1832, he removed to South Bend, where he embarked in mercantile pursuits. He was one of the pioneers and was identified with some of the leading manufactories of that place, and at the time of his death, in June 1840, was engaged in erecting extensive works for the manufacture of glass; he was also engaged in the manufacture of pig-iron at Mishawaka. He was a very active Democrat, and was the first County Treasurer of St. Joseph County. He was a man very popular with all classes, especially so with the poor, and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. He and wife had born to them three children, two of whom are yet living - Mrs. Mills, of Rochester, N. Y., and the subject of this sketch. Mrs. McClelland continued to reside in South Bend, and there married William S. Vail. This couple moved to Valparaiso in 1863, where they are both yet living at advanced ages. To their union were born two children, of whom only one, William H., a jeweler of Valparaiso, yet lives. Marquis L. McClelland was but ten years old when his father died. He learned the tanner's and currier's trade, but has never made that his business. He came to Valparaiso in 1854, was employed as salesman in different mercantile establishments, and the fall of 1861 was appointed Clerk of the Congressional Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, of which Hon. Schuyler Colfax was Chairman, and at that gentleman's solicitation acted as his Private Secretary in the Forty-second Congress. He returned to Valparaiso in 1862 and engaged in the dry goods trade, in partnership with A. V. Bartholomew. He continued at this four years, and in the meantime was active in organizing the First National Bank. He was elected the first cashier, and continued as such about eighteen years. Since that time he has been engaged in a general life and fire insurance business. He was married, October 3, 1853, to Miss Sarah A. Wilmington, of South Bend, and to them have been born two children - Theodore and Flora. Mr. McClelland has been a member of the Masonic order for twenty-five years, and has passed through the Blue Doge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Scottish Rites, and is a Past Eminent Commander of the Commandery. The Blue Lodge at Hobart, Ind., is named in his honor. He is a Republican, and has filled the positions of Township Treasurer and Clerk of Centre Township. He is the county's present nominee for the State Legislature, and has served two terms in the City Council. He and two others were active in building the C. & G. T. R. R. from Valparaiso to South Bend, and he has always taken active part in all the public affairs of the county. He and Schuyler Colfax was raised as boys together, and have always been on the most intimate and confidential terms.
SourceS:
Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey & Company. 771 p. [see pp. 261-262]
Lee and Lee. 1895. Lee and Lee's Atlas of Porter County, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Lee and Lee. 81 p.
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Hotel Spindler, J. M. Sheldon, Proprietor
Date: 1911
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Joseph Decker
Postmark: Not applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: In 1845, Elizabeth Harrison, from Tennessee, built a tavern on this site, enlarging the structure in 1849. Around 1855, A. R. Gould moved into the structure erected by Elizabeth Harrison, where he operated a hotel and tavern there, called the Gould House, until his death in 1877.
Gould was succeeded in the operation of the business by his widow. In June 1881, the Gould House was razed and the Grand Central Hotel erected on the site. Some of the proprietors of the Grand Central Hotel were Edward Mee, Mark Killian, John H. Spindler, C. R. Barnhart, Virgil Dawson, Dell Carr, William Burdick, and James Wilson. The Grand Central Hotel was sold in December 1898 by Frank M. Axe to John H. Spindler of Lowell, who took possession of the property in May 1899.
The Spindler Hotel was later called the Sheldon Hotel, the Sheldon Hotel being operated by James H. Sheldon. The structure was then sold in 1921 to G. G. Shauer and Sons. The hotel building was razed and the Premier Theatre was erected on the site.
Sources:
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; December 17, 1898; Volume 15, Number 36, Page 4, Column 4. Column titled "Valparaiso."
Porter County Vidette, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; June 23, 1881; Volume 25, Number 25, Page 5, Column 1.
Reading, A. H. 1905. The City of Homes, Schools and Churches: A Pictorial Story of Valparaiso, Its People and Its Environs. Valparaiso, Indiana: A. H. Reading. 82 p. [see p. 14]
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Chautauqua Manufacturing Company, Educational Specialties
Chautauqua Park
Date: 1911
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Joseph Decker
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This structure was located at West Main Street (now West Lincolnway) and Center Street, and the site was later occupied by the Valparaiso Technical Institute. The building was headquarters of the Home Herald Press, established in 1887.
In 1896, the company was incorporated as Powers-Higley & Company. The company's initial line of products focused on educational materials. Later, a personal wooden desk that included a blackboard and a scrolling educational lithograph was produced, called the Chautauqua Desk; this desk became a very successful product for the company. Powers-Higley & Company products were marketed by the L. E. Myers Sales Company, founded by L. E. Myers.
By 1913, Powers-Higley & Company and Lewis E. Myers Sales Company had merged and operated under the name of L. E. Myers Company. Around 1915, the company was sold, but continued operating under the L. E. Myers Company name. In 1921, a nonprofit company, the Children's Foundation of Valparaiso, became affiliated with L. E. Myers Company. The foundation focused primarily on the publication of educational materials for children. Immediately south of the this building was located the Pitkin & Brooks building, which was a manufacturer of glassware.
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The following news item appeared in the February 24, 1910, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
Powers-Higley Co. Is Absorbed by the Valparaiso Lighting Co.
Valparaiso Vidette: H. D. Hayden, superintendent of the Valparaiso Lighting company, states that the deal was completed Saturday whereby his company comes into position of the Powers-Higley plant in this city. The consideration was not named, but it is understood that is was about $4,000. The Powers-Higley plant has been a losing proposition for some time, and the old owners to retain possession was nothing short of a business suicide.
Mr. Hayden stated to a Vidette reporter that the factory operated by the old firm will remain, the power to be furnished by the Lighting company. As far as practicable the Powers-Higley cables and wires will be used and Mr. Hayden hopes to have the current transferred within three weeks, or a month at the latest.
According to the superintendent, only the minimum cost of transferring the system will be charged to the consumers affected. Work of changing the system has already begun, and an extra force of men will be kept "on the job" until the work is completed.
The news of the purchase will not come as much of a surprise, for it was generally known that negotiations were being carried on between the two companies. The deal was not completed, however, until Saturday.
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The following news item appeared in the June 27, 1912, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
NEW FACTORY AT VALPO.
Former Chesterton Citizen Employed by Pitkin & Brooks.
Pitkin & Brooks, the firm which has been brought to this city through the efforts of the Valparaiso Commercial club, is brining its equipment here from Bowling Green, O., where its former establishment was destroyed by fire. Already two carloads of glass blanks for cutting have arrived and more are to follow. E. P. Ruth, stock-keeper for the firm, arrived here yesterday from the same city, and is superintending the unloading of the cars and looking to other things for the company.
Now that the institution is assured that this city will be the future home of its cut glass factory, it has been considered advisable to begin brining in the goods. Quarters have been leased in the Chautauqua Manufacturing company's building for the storage of all material until the building for the Pitkin & Brooks company is completed.
Charles E. Foster, who was given the contract for the erection of the new structure, has a force of men at work on the grounds and the work will be pushed to early completion. According to the agreement, by the 10th of August the factory must be ready for occupancy. Yesterday a carload of stone arrived for the foundation, and today another was received which will be used in the masonry work of the foundation.
E. P. Ruth, the man who is here at the present time and had charge of the stock at Bowling Green, stated this morning that Valparaiso seemed like getting home to him, for this county was once his place of residence. Before entering the employ of Pitkin & Brooks, Mr. Ruth lived at Chesterton. -- Vidette.
Sources:
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; February 24, 1910; Volume 26, Number 48, Page 7, Column 5. Column titled "Powers-Higley Co. Is Absorbed by the Valparaiso Lighting Co."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; June 27, 1912; Volume 29, Number 14, Page 1, Column 5. Column titled "New Factory at Valpo."
Decker, Joseph. 1911. Souvenir Book of Valparaiso, Indiana. Valparaiso, Indiana: Valparaiso Printing Company. Unpaginated.
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