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also, would love if you had the time to list links for your fave wedding photog - either website or flickr....i can't decide if i'm going to pour over inspiraton, or just shoot blindly and see what i come up with myself....
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Creator: James A. Peters
Local number: SIA2012-6364
Summary: This field book contains the notes of James A. Peters during his trip to Mexico in 1950. Places visited include Veracruz, Michoacan, Jalisco, and Nayarit.
Dates: 1950
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Related blog post: Enjoy the Journey
Document time passing.
Keri Smith: Wreck This Journal
At Café Europa
December 5, 2011
With Hannhell
I'm having a hard time getting these pages photographed as there never seem to be enough light these days.
A letter written by my wife's late grandmother when she was 8 years old
December 21 1942
Dear Santa Claus
My name is Gretchen. My age is 8. My street number is 2427 Chicago Avenue. My Telephone number is MA-6760
I want a dolly with hair and a pair of skis and a nursery set and some other things including Defense Stamps. And a Story book dolly
From Gretchen
When I first saw this oh-so-sweet sentiment written on an original check drawn on The Citizens National Bank of Edmond (which has been open and serving the citizens of this OKC suburb since 1901), I thought that Abbie was another of Josephine’s many suitors. However, as I began searching, I quickly found out that he was a she, and she and Josephine must have been best friends when they both attended Central State Teachers’ College beginning in the fall of 1925. Curious about this girl (who was obviously quite taken with Josephine and her charms), I decided to learn more about Abbie Erwin.
Born on March 13, 1907 in Oklahoma Territory, Abbie entered the world during the last rough and tumble days before Oklahoma entered the Union as the 46th state on November 16th of that year.
We in Oklahoma have Thomas Jefferson to thank for being part of the United States, for it was through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 that the U.S. acquired over 825,000 square miles of land, including what would eventually become our state, from France for the paltry sum of $11,250,000. The land was rugged and untamed, the weather often mercurial, and, although several European expeditions and American Indians traveled through the state, there were few permanent settlements until the U.S. government began removing Native peoples from their homelands across the South to Oklahoma in 1831. Known as the Trail of Tears, thousands of Native Americans died from disease, exposure, and starvation as they made the long and arduous trek by foot to their new, Government-assigned home in Indian Territory, but soon, more than 30 tribes called Oklahoma home.
As American expansion creeped further and further west in the ensuing decades, many white people saw opportunity in Oklahoma and wanted to claim some of the state’s fertile land for themselves. The U.S. Government agreed, and the Land Runs soon began. The first and most famous one occurred on April 22, 1889, when over 50,000 “boomers” and “sooners” lined up to claim some of the two million acres in the Unassigned Lands that were available for settlement. What was an open, empty land on April 21st became overnight towns scattered along the prairie (Oklahoma City boasted 10,000 citizens literally overnight). Homes, schools, and churches soon sprouted up, crops were planted and sewn, and life was good and bountiful if you worked hard enough.
William M. Erwin was a hard-working man looking for just such bounty. He was born and raised in Missouri but always seemed to be looking toward the horizon for something more. He lived in various small towns throughout Missouri then moved on to McKinney, Texas, where he worked as a school teacher, met his bride, Sarah, and sired three daughters in as many years. But, William was restless in Texas and looked toward Oklahoma for a new start, so, in 1903, he packed up his young family and headed north to the fertile land and rolling hills of Pauls Valley in the center of the state.
In an old directory, Pauls Valley is described as having a population of 3,000 with “4 strong banks, a flouring mill with a daily capacity of 125 barrels, a cotton compress, grain elevator, ice plant, 3 cotton gins, local and long distance telephone facilities ….” Soon after his arrival in town, William started two local newspapers – the Pauls Valley Enterprise and Valley News – in April 1904. He must have found what he was looking for in Oklahoma because spent the rest of his life here publishing and editing the newspapers, serving as postmaster from 1915 – 1922, and participating in several civic organizations.
Soon after William got the papers up and running, the Erwin family expanded to include three more children, Abbie, Allen, and John. Abbie was eight years younger than her next oldest sibling, Helen, so I imagine that she was doted on and well loved by her three older sisters. They probably spent lazy summer afternoons pinning Abbie’s hair into the latest Edwardian styles with lots of curl and height or read to her while rocking on their white painted, creaky porch swing. With two brothers that were two and four years younger than Abbie, I can also see her being quite the boss and leading those unsuspecting lads into all kinds of kid trouble.
Since he had been a teacher, I’m sure that William and Sarah had high educational expectations for all six of their children. After Abbie graduated from school in Pauls Valley, she moved to Edmond, OK, to attend Central State Teachers’ College, with her goal of becoming an educator as her father had once been.
It is there that Abbie must have met Josephine Neill in 1925 when they both would have been freshmen. Abbie lived off campus at 232 E. Hurd in what may have been a girls’ rooming house, and Josephine lived nearby on Normal St. (possibly a dorm building – there is no longer a Normal St. in Edmond). I can just imagine the two girls, on their own for the first time in their lives, having a great time exploring their new surroundings, going to see Rudolph Valentino movies at the cinema, and spending countless hours talking about all of the cute boys on campus. They wrote sweet, best friends notes to each other, like this one in Josephine’s scrapbook, and they certainly dreamed of what adventures their lives held in store for them. It must have been a thrilling and exuberant time, indeed, and one that, sadly, didn’t last long for either girl. Josephine did not return to Edmond for her sophomore year (more about that in another post), and I don’t think that Abbie graduated, either.
Sometime around 1927, she met a young man named T.L. Lindsey, fell in love, and got married. In the 1930 census, I found Abbie and T.L. living in a flea-bite-sized town in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma called Sugden, where T.L. was a public school teacher and possibly a coach. It was also that year that the couple had their first child (a boy), with four more to follow in quick succession.
The Lindseys spent the Depression years moving from small town to small town as teaching positions for T.L. became available. They lived in Crooked Oak, Geary, and Wynnewood, where Abbie’s second son, Troy, was a standout in high school football.
According to the Daily Oklahoman, “the 200-pound guard starred in high school on Wynnewood’s 1950 Class B state champion football team under coach Tex Bartlett. He was an all-state selection that year and was picked to play in the Oil Bowl game between Texas and Oklahoma high school stars in Wichita Falls.” This may have been the last time that William Erwin saw his grandson play; William died within the year, and both of his newspapers back in Pauls Valley died with him. Although she was now alone, Sarah stayed in the house she and William shared for so many years, the house where they raised their six children and enjoyed so many happy times.
As for Troy, after high school, he attended college at his mother’s alma mater, Central State, where he was a football star throughout his college career. Perhaps to be closer to their son, Abbie, T.L. and Troy’s siblings moved to nearby Midwest City, and T.L. taught in Luther schools.
During Troy’s time at Central State, he was named to the Oklahoma Collegiate conference all-star team three years and was an all-college, all-star athlete his senior year. Upon graduation in 1955, he was signed to the Chicago Cardinals football team (I had no idea there was such a team!). I can imagine that on the warm July day he left for training camp, his entire family gathered at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City to see him off. His grandmother, Sarah, would be there, along with his sister and three brothers, and his parents. I can see T.L. putting a comforting arm around Abbie as Troy walked out onto the tarmac and up the stairs to the waiting Braniff Corvair-340-32 for the flight to Chicago and Troy’s new life.
The flight, likely Troy’s first, was routine that afternoon, but, as the plane made its approach to Chicago’s Midway Airport, “the aircraft hit a (gas station) sign and crashed through the airport boundry fence. (The pilot’s) momentary disorientation caused by the loss of visual reference during the final visual phase of the approach resulted in an increased rate of descent at an altitude too low to affect recovery.” The plane crashed just short of the runway and rested a few feet away from the airport’s fire station. The fire crew arrived at the crash site within moments and began pulling survivors out of the wreckage and dousing the plane with water to keep it from catching fire.
Of the 40 passengers and three crew aboard Braniff flight 560, 22 passengers and two crew members, including the pilot, died. Among the dead was Troy Lindsey, who had turned 23 a few days before he left his family for what was to be the opportunity of a lifetime.
I can’t begin to imagine how Abbie and her family felt hearing the news that her young son, whose life held so much promise, was gone just like that, only a few hours after they put him on the plane. The shock must have been overwhelming, the pain devastating.
I couldn’t find much more information about Abbie after her son died. I know that the Lindseys stopped their wandering ways and stayed in Midwest City until Abbie died at the age of 65 in 1972. T.L. followed her in 1986.
(The quote about the crash came from this site: www.planecrashinfo.com/1955/1955-27.htm
When I was doing this research into Abbie’s life, I wasn’t sure at first that Troy was her son – I didn’t want him to be because I knew what happened to him. But when I found an article about him with his address listed (that matched Abbie’s address), I knew that this was going to end up being a very sad story, indeed. I mourned for Abbie and her family as if this horrible accident happened yesterday and not over 50 years ago. So, so sad.)
We have started the Wondering Moleskine Project and that means some interesting audio will start to emerge this summer.
If you wanna spit your beer out of both nostrils head over to Flickr's 'The Help Forum' where many soon to be ex Flickr users are venting their frustrations in the deafening silence of a response from either Flickr or Yahoo.
The consensus is that Flickr tanked this one big time and a lot of people are moving to or opening up accounts on ipernity.com...
which looks a lot like Flickr used to and shows photographs in a more classy and elegant way... not like a pile of different sized bricks all squeezed together.
They also have a tool that lets you upload your pictures from Flickr in batches of 180 at a time.
Flickr's been filled with bugs and glitches and slow as hell all day.
Maybe that's because of all of the bandwidth getting used to move pictures to other sites or the volume of angry complaints going to Flickr on the 'Help Forum.'
I don't know.
I've signed up for an account at Ipernity and I'll explore it over the next few days.
If Flickr keeps this format I have to find another place to share my photographs because I just don't think this fits.
You guys have always inspired me and this place has always felt like a community.
But the reality is that we never 'owned' anything here.
The look of our community changed drastically in a moment without us even being prepared for it with some warning.
I don't know why... but I feel betrayed.
And I shouldn't.
I should just take my pictures somewhere where they 'fit.'
Complaining to the 'Help Forum' on Flickr here someone put it like this...
'I feel like my family album just got destroyed in a fire.'
I feel you man... I really do.
You know I wanna stay positive and be inspired and create whatever it is that I create in a community of people who do the same and appreciate the details that I appreciate too.
You and Flickr always felt like 'an old friend.'
And quite honestly, that old friend Flickr is dead.
Look at this screen shot above and read between the lines.
The community is outraged.
When the staff at Flickr has to remind us that 'personal attacks against Staff or other users will not be tolerated'...
well... you gotta figure that there's a LOT of outrage.
I miss my Flickr.
And I'll miss you guys.
I've always felt the love and I still do.
I'll be around... but if something drastic doesn't happen in Flickerland over the next few days more and more of my time, my photographs and my attention will be elsewhere...
probably on Ipernity.
I miss seeing you guys the way that I used to see you.
And Flickr... RIP.
You were a good friend.
I'll miss you buddy.
Michael Ossmann sent me this Cease and Desist letter after realizing that an upcoming article and presentation of mine involve reverse engineering the Ubertooth One.
He wrote it in reference to this article, in which I sniff the Ubertooth's firmware update by impersonating it with a Facedancer board.
travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2012/10/emulating-usb-dfu-to...
قال الله تعالى: "شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِيَ
أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِّنَ الْهُدَى
وَالْفُرْقَانِ "
آللهم تقبل منـآ مـآمضَى من رمضـآن
وآعنا على مـآتبقى منُه
وتقبل منـآ سائر الأعمال
يـآرب العـآلمـًين
File name: 10_03_002637b
Binder label: Clothes
Title: Fibre Chamois [back]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 x 9 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Women; Textiles
Notes: Title from item. Retailer: Aldridge & Co., Little Falls, N. Y.
Statement of responsibility: American Fibre Chamois Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Florence T. Milburn's Nurse Corps index cards showing her military service. She was one of the "Sacred Twenty," the first Navy nurses, who joined in 1908.
Notes The card at the bottom is actually the reverse of the first card and digitally put in place. From Nurse Corps Index Cards Organizational records, 56 boxes, 8 lf, Processed, Inactive, Restricted (Privacy act), No finding aid. List of nurses and their service stations. One box includes Dieticians from World War 2.
my hands gets so chapped in this dry winter weather...grapefruit scent is so fantastic! and i got the other one for free.
H. Res. 24 - Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
"In his conduct while President of the United States —and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed — Donald John Trump engaged in high crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States..."
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▶ On Wednesday, 13 January 2021, “Donald J. Trump became the first American president to be impeached twice, as 10 members of his party joined with Democrats in the House to charge him with 'incitement of insurrection' for his role in egging on a violent mob that stormed the Capitol last week [as Congress convened to certify the results of the 3 November 2020 presidential election won by former vice-president Joe Biden].
Reconvening in a building now heavily militarized against threats from pro-Trump activists and adorned with bunting for the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., lawmakers voted 232 to 197 to approve a single impeachment article. It accused Mr. Trump of 'inciting violence against the government of the United States' in his quest to overturn the election results, and called for him to be removed and disqualified from ever holding public office again.
The vote left another indelible stain on Mr. Trump’s presidency just a week before he is slated to leave office and laid bare the cracks running through the Republican Party. More members of his party voted to charge the president than in any other impeachment. He faces a Senate trial that could disqualify him from future office.”
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When our granddaughter Lauren was 6, she had a pretend chip shop. Check out those wacky opening times, and wacky prices. It really was a wacky weekend serving pretend chips to the neighbours
Now she's 22!!!
This large menu board is on display in our garage, I smile every time we get the car out.
www.flickr.com/photos/37578663@N02/8749213797/in/photostr...
Photogrpher/Fényképész: Zureich Károly
Miskolc, Városház tér 21. Mázer ház
(Egy időben: Széchenyi tér 2466, Mazer ház)
Activity/Működése: 1870-1896
CDV, ~ late 1870s -1880
Hungary
Érdekes, hogy Veress Ferenc úgy tudja, hogy Zureich Károly udvari fényképész címet elnyerte, máshol nem találtam nyomát:
FÉNYKÉPÉSZETI LAPOK
Havi közlöny
II. évfolyam 4.szám Kolozsvár. Április. 1883
Szerkeszti és kiadja: VERESS FERENCZ
..."Majláth János székesfehérvári fényképészt közelebbről udvari fényképészszé nevezték ki.
Ezzel egyidejüleg megemlítjük, hogy Majláthon kívül udvari fényképészek – tudtunkkal- hazánkban jelenleg a következők:
Beszédes Sándor Esztergomban,
Bülch Ágoston, Ellinger Ede, Kalmár, Koller Károly és Kozmata Ferencz Budapesten,
Rupprecht Mihály Sopronban
és Zureich Károly Miskolczon."...
documente.bcucluj.ro/web/bibdigit/periodice/fenykepeszeti...
Forrás: fotobarat33 Köszi!
I Currently have an exhibition of the Hotel sketches going on in the Newton Free Library. I was contacted by a Newspaper correspondent and was interviewed in the 12/22 Sunday paper!
Here's the link to the article:
www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2013/12/22/sketc...