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The Super Ikontas:
The Zeiss Ikon Ikonta cameras have been produced since 1929 and were offered in four model lines (A, B, C, and D) with different negative formats (4,5 x 6, 6 x 6, 6 x 9, and 6,5 x 11 cm). The Super Ikonta production line started not until 1934 with the Super Ikonta A (530) for 4,5 x 6 cm negatives. Basically, Ikonta variants which included a coupled rangefinder were named Super Ikonta. Like Agfa folders, Zeiss Ikontas were fitted with a wide range of lenses and shutters and the cameras were priced accordingly (the buyer could determine which combination was ordered). The post-war shutters usually have flash synchronisation. The lenses produced after the WW II were coated, which reduces light reflections between the lens elements, avoids lens flare and increases the contrast.
The Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta I B (532/16) was produced from 1937 to 1955 by the German Zeiss Ikon company. It was also sold under the name Super Ikonta I 6x6 cm. The original Super Ikonta B featured an uncoated f/2.8 Tessar produced by Carl Zeiss Jena. This camera is fitted with a coated f/2.8 80 mm Tessar produced in the post-war Zeiss plant in Oberkochen (Zeiss-Opton) in West-Germany. The lens of the pre-war cameras was set in a Compur-Rapid shutter and the post-war cameras had either a Copur-Rapid or a Synchro-Compur shutter. Like all Super Ikontas, the camera is equipped with a coupled rangefinder. In contrast to its predecessor (530/16), the 532/16 model unified the rangefinder and the viewfinder into one larger window.
The automated film transport stop and frame counting mechanism taken over from the first Super Ikonta B (530/16) makes the camera faster in use. The red window in the camera back is only needed for lining up the first shot. Like its predecessor, the 532/16 model takes 11 (instead of the standard 12) 6x6 cm images on 120 type rollfilm. The unusual number of frames is caused by a design change during the time of production of the 530/16 model to encounter frame overlapping problems. The production process before and after the war was somewhat complex:
“The camera bodies and bellows were produced in Stuttgart, shutters were ordered from Friedrich Deckel in Munich and shipped to Carl Zeiss Jena, who mounted the lens into the shutters. Then the lens and shutter assembly was shipped to Stuttgart for mounting to the body. Rangefinder components were manufactured in the Ernemann plant in Dresden before the war, and shipped to Stuttgart for acceptance testing and assembly into the cameras. After the war the rangefinder components were outsourced to Rodenstock”. Source: camera-wiki.org/wiki/Super_Ikonta_532/16
This camera:
According to its serial number starting with "Q", the body of this camera was produced between 1943 and 1944: camera-wiki.org/wiki/Zeiss_Ikon_serial_numbers According to the serial number of the lens, this Tessar was produced between 1951 and 1953, presumably already 1951 (see low range number): camera-wiki.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_serial_numbers
Obviously, this camera combines a pre-war body on storage fitted with a post-war lens. According to the serial number listing of Bernd Otto, the camera was mounted between 1949 and 1951. This corresponds to the beginning of implementing flash-synchronized shutters in 1948/49, the period of the availability of Tessars engraved "Zeiss Opton" (1949-1953), and the shift from Compur Rapid to Synchro Compur shutters around 1952 (see Bernd K. Otto: Die Entwicklung der Ikonta/Super Ikonta (2), Photo Deal Vol. 47 IV, October-December 2004, page 35; Larry Gubas: The Super Ikontas, Zeiss Historica Vol. 4, Nr. 2, Autumn 1982; Ivor Matanle: Super Ikonta, Amateur Photographer, 29 May 2010, page 61-63).
As usual for cameras of this age, the longer shutter speeds (> 1/10 sec) are delayed as a result of gumming. Also, the small lever at the lens (bottom right) for tripping the shutter does not swing back automatically after release. Obviously, the little spring for this function has weakened and the lever has to be moved by hand each time before cocking the shutter. Otherwise, the shutter cocking lever at the top of the lens will not catch but move back and expose the negative accidentally. Actually, the camera has to get a CLA and a shutter repair by a professional camera service but can absolutely be used with these limitations.
Fortunately, the Zeiss-Opton Tessar of this camera does not suffer from the dreaded "Tessar disease". According to the renowned folder expert Jurgen Kreckel (certo6.com/), one in three Zeiss-Opton Tessars have this malady. During the early years (1950-1953) of the West-German Zeiss company in Oberkochen, specific Tessar lens elements were fixed with glue, which is not stable over time and looks like lens separation. Particularly, the middle lens element is in danger of becoming out of axis preventing uniform focusing across the film area. In contrast, the Carl Zeiss Jena Tessars still were set differently and do not suffer from this disease.
Meanwhile, this camera has been repaired and CLAd by the well-known folder expert Jurgen Kreckel (certo6.com/). Jurgen did a great job: the camera is working like new. The contact with him is always very pleasing. He did the job rapidly and for a very fair price. The photographers using vintage folders (rather than collecting them) can be thankful for his excellent service!
Some valuable tips for using vintage folding cameras have been listed here: www.petrakla.com/pages/folding-camera-tips
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Entrance on the corner of River and Lake Streets.
Description
Council Rock is situated at the corner of Lake and River Streets within the Village of Cooperstown. It is a 1.25 acre site on the west bank of the mouth of the Susquehanna River. Stone steps lead from the street to the Lake.
Not only does the park offer a magnificent view of the lake, but it is also an important site in the history of Cooperstown [Council Rock and Clinton/Sullivan Expedition of August 9, 1779]. Its entrance is marked by two stone columns with Historical Markers and a large painted arrow which indicates true North.
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The 1779 Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, or Sullivan Campaign was an extended systematic military campaign during the American Revolutionary War against Loyalists ("Tories") and the four Nations of the Haudenosaunee which had sided with the British. It has been described by some historians as a genocide due to the magnitude and totality of its violence towards and destruction of the Haudenosaunee.
The campaign ordered and organized by George Washington and his staff was conducted chiefly in the lands of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Longhouse Confederacy) "taking the war home to the enemy to break their morale", and the expedition was largely successful in that goal as they destroyed more than 40 Iroquois villages and stores of winter crops, breaking the power of the six nations in New York all the way to the Great Lakes, as the terrified Indian families relocated to Canada seeking protection of the British. Today this area is the heartland of Upstate New York, and with the military power of the Iroquois vanquished, the events also opened up the vast Ohio Country, the Great Lakes regions, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky to post-war settlements.
Led by Major General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton, the expedition was conducted during the summer of 1779, beginning June 18 when the army marched from Easton, Pennsylvania, to October 3 when it abandoned Fort Sullivan, built at Tioga, to return to George Washington's main camp in New Jersey. While the campaign had only one major battle, at Newtown (since the tribes evacuated ahead of the large military force) along the Chemung River in western New York, the expedition severely damaged the Iroquois nations' economies by burning their crops, villages, and chattels, thus ruining the Iroquois technological infrastructure. With the Native Americans' shelter gone and food supplies destroyed, thereafter the strength of the Iroquois Confederacy was broken. The death toll from exposure and starvation dwarfed the casualties received in the Battle of Newtown, in which about 1,000 Iroquois and Loyalists were decisively defeated by an army of 3,200 Continental soldiers.
Sullivan's army carried out a scorched earth campaign, methodically destroying at least forty Iroquois villages throughout the Finger Lakes region of western New York, to put an end to Iroquois and Loyalist attacks against American settlements as had occurred the previous year of 1778, such as the Cobleskill, Wyoming Valley and Cherry Valley massacres. The survivors fled to British regions in Canada and the Niagara Falls and Buffalo areas. The devastation created great hardships for the thousands of Iroquois refugees who fled the region to shelter under British military protection outside Fort Niagara that winter, and many starved or froze to death, despite strenuous attempts by the British authorities to import food and provide shelter via their limited resources.
The Sullivan Expedition devastated the Iroquois crops and towns and left them dependent upon the mercy of the British for the harsh winter of 1779. With the Iroquois population decimated by disease and battle, the Indian morale never fully recovered, and the Iroquois thereafter mostly limited their incursions into the new United States to isolated hunting parties, the main populations having permanently migrated north of the border.
When the American Revolutionary War began, British officials as well as the colonial Continental Congress sought the allegiance (or at least the neutrality) of the influential Iroquois Confederacy. The Six Nations divided over what course to pursue. Most Mohawks, Cayugas, Onondagas, and Senecas chose to ally themselves with the British. But the Oneidas and Tuscaroras, thanks in part to the influence of Presbyterian missionary Samuel Kirkland, joined the American revolutionaries. For the Iroquois, the American Revolution became a civil war.
The Iroquois homeland lay on the frontier between the Province of Quebec and the provinces of New York and Pennsylvania. After a British army surrendered after the Battles of Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, Loyalists and their Iroquois allies raided American Patriot settlements in the region, as well as the villages of American-allied Iroquois. Working out of Fort Niagara, men such as Loyalist commander Colonel John Butler, Sayenqueraghta, Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant, and Seneca chief Cornplanter led the British-Indian raids. Commander-in-chief General George Washington never allocated more than minimal Continental Army troops for the defense of the frontier and he told the frontier settlements to use local militia for their own defense.
On June 10, 1778, the Board of War of the Continental Congress concluded that a major Indian war was in the offing. Since a defensive war would prove to be inadequate the board called for a major expedition of 3,000 men against Fort Detroit and a similar thrust into Seneca country to punish the Iroquois. Congress designated Major General Horatio Gates to lead the campaign and appropriated funds for the campaign. In spite of these plans, the expedition did not occur until the following year.
On July 3, 1778, Loyalist commander Colonel Butler led his Rangers accompanied by a force of Senecas and Cayugas (led by Sayenqueraghta) in an attack on Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley (a rebel granary and settlement along the Susquehanna River near Wilkes-Barre), practically annihilating 360 armed Patriot defenders lured out of their defenses at Forty Fort.
In September 1778, revenge for the Wyoming defeat was taken by American Colonel Thomas Hartley who, with 200 soldiers, burned nine to twelve Seneca, Delaware and Mingo villages along the Susquehanna River in northeast Pennsylvania, including Tioga and Chemung. At the same time, Butler's Rangers attacked German Flatts in the Mohawk Valley, destroying all the houses and fields in the area. Further American retaliation was soon taken by Continental Army units under William Butler (no relation to John Butler) and John Cantine, burning the substantial Indian villages at Unadilla and Onaquaga on the Susquehanna River.
On November 11, 1778, Loyalist Captain Walter Butler (the son of John Butler) led two companies of Butler's Rangers along with about 320 Iroquois led by Cornplanter, including 30 Mohawks led by Joseph Brant, on an assault at Cherry Valley in New York. While the fort was surrounded, Indians began to massacre civilians in the village, killing and scalping 16 soldiers and 32 civilians, mostly women and children, and taking 80 captive, half of whom were never returned. In vain, Brant, who was blamed for the attack, actually tried to stop the rampage. The town was plundered and destroyed.
The Cherry Valley Massacre convinced the American colonists that they needed to take action. In April 1779, American Colonel Van Schaick led an expedition of over 500 soldiers against the Onondaga, destroying several villages. When the British began to concentrate their military efforts on the southern colonies in 1779, Washington used the opportunity to launch a larger planned offensive towards Fort Niagara. His initial impulse was to assign the expedition to Major General Charles Lee, but he, Major General Philip Schuyler, and Major General Israel Putnam were all disregarded for various reasons. Washington first offered command of the expedition to Horatio Gates, the "Hero of Saratoga," but Gates turned down the offer, ostensibly for health reasons. Major General John Sullivan, fifth on the seniority list, was offered command on March 6, 1779, and accepted. Washington's orders to Sullivan made it clear that he wanted the Iroquois threat completely eliminated:
Orders of George Washington to General John Sullivan, at Head-Quarters (Wallace House, New Jersey) May 31, 1779
The Expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents. The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements, and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.
I would recommend, that some post in the center of the Indian Country, should be occupied with all expedition, with a sufficient quantity of provisions whence parties should be detached to lay waste all the settlements around, with instructions to do it in the most effectual manner, that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed.
But you will not by any means listen to any overture of peace before the total ruinment of their settlements is effected. Our future security will be in their inability to injure us and in the terror with which the severity of the chastisement they receive will inspire them.[5]
Washington instructed Gen. Sullivan and three brigades to march from Easton, Pennsylvania to the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania and to follow the river upstream to Tioga, now known as Athens, Pennsylvania. He ordered Gen. James Clinton to assemble a fourth brigade at Schenectady, New York, move westward up the Mohawk River Valley to Canajoharie, and cross overland to Otsego Lake as a staging point. When Sullivan so ordered, Clinton's New York Brigade was to march down the Susquehanna to meet Sullivan at Tioga, destroying all Indian villages on his route. Sullivan's army was to have totaled 15 regiments and 5,000 men, but his Pennsylvania brigade entered the campaign more than 750 men short, and promised enlistments never materialized. In addition, the third regiment of the brigade, the German Battalion, had shrunk by casualties, sickness, and desertion (the three-year term of enlistment of its soldiers had expired on June 27) to only 100 men, and was parceled out in 25-man companies as flank protection for the expedition. Armand's Legion was recalled by Washington to the Main Army before the campaign began. Because of these and other shortages, Sullivan's army, including two companies of local militia totaling only 70 men, never exceeded 4,000 troops.
The main army left Easton on June 18, marching 58 miles to an encampment on the Bullock farm in the Wyoming Valley, which it reached on June 23. There they awaited provisions and supplies that had not been sent forward, remaining in the Wyoming Valley until July 31. The army marched slowly, paced by both the mountainous terrain and the flatboats carrying the army's supplies up the Susquehanna, and arrived at Tioga on August 11. They began construction of a temporary fort at the confluence of the Chemung and Susquehanna Rivers they called Fort Sullivan.
Sullivan sent one of his guides, Lt. John Jenkins, who had been captured while surveying the area in November 1777, with a scouting party to reconnoiter Chemung. He reported that the village was active and unaware of his presence. Sullivan marched the greater part of the army all night over two high defiles and attacked out of a thick fog just after dawn only to find the town deserted. Brig. Gen. Edward Hand reported a small force fleeing towards Newtown and received permission to pursue. Despite flankers, he had gone only a mile when his advance guard was ambushed with six dead and nine wounded. The entire brigade assaulted but the ambushers escaped with minimal if any casualties. Sullivan's men spent the day burning the town and destroyed all of its grain and vegetable crops. During the afternoon the 1st New Hampshire Regiment of Poor's brigade was fired on, either from ambush or possibly by fire from other troops, inflicting another soldier killed and five wounded. Ambushes also occurred on August 15 and August 17, with combined casualties of two killed and two wounded. On August 23, the accidental discharge of a rifle in camp resulted in one captain killed and one man wounded.
After two-weeks' portage of supplies, Clinton's brigade set up camp on June 30 at the south end of Otsego Lake (now Cooperstown, New York), where he waited for orders that did not arrive until August 6. The next day he began his destructive march of 154 miles (248 km) to Tioga along the upper Susquehanna, taking all of his supplies with him in 250 bateaux. The actions at Chemung made Sullivan suspicious that the Iroquois might be trying to defeat in detail his split forces, and the next day he sent 1,084 picked men under Brig. Gen. Enoch Poor north to locate Clinton and escort him to Fort Sullivan. The entire army assembled on August 22.
On August 26, the combined army of approximately 3,200 men and 250 pack horse teamsters left Fort Sullivan, garrisoned by 300 troops taken from across the army and left behind under Col. Israel Shreve of the 2nd New Jersey Regiment. Marching slowly north into the Six Nations territory in central western New York, the campaign had only one major battle, the Battle of Newtown, fought on August 29. It was a complete victory for the Continental Army. Later a 25-man detachment of the Continental Army was ambushed, and all but five captured and killed at the Boyd and Parker ambush. On September 1 Captain John Combs died of an illness.
Sullivan's forces reached their deepest penetration at the Seneca town of Chenussio (also called Little Beard's town, Beardstown, Chinefee, Genesee, and Geneseo), near the present Cuylerville, New York, on September 15, inflicting total destruction on the Iroquois villages before returning to Fort Sullivan at the end of the month. Three days later the army abandoned the fort to return to Morristown, New Jersey, and go into winter quarters. By Sullivan's account, forty Iroquois villages were destroyed, including Catherine's Town, Goiogouen, Chonodote, and Kanadaseaga, along with all the crops and orchards of the Iroquois.
Appointed the British governor of Quebec in 1778, Frederick Haldimand, while kept informed of Sullivan's invasion by Butler and Fort Niagara, did not supply sufficient troops for his Iroquois allies' defense. Late in September, he dispatched a force of about 600 Loyalists and Iroquois, but by then the expedition had successfully ended.
Further west, a concurrent expedition was undertaken by Colonel Daniel Brodhead. Brodhead left Fort Pitt on August 14, 1779, with a contingent of 600 men, regulars of his 8th Pennsylvania Regiment and militia, marching up the Allegheny River into the Seneca and Munsee country of northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York. Since most native warriors were away to confront Sullivan's army, Brodhead met little resistance and destroyed about 10 villages, including Conewango. Although initial plans called for Brodhead to eventually link up with Sullivan at Chenussio for an attack against Fort Niagara, Brodhead turned back after destroying villages near modern-day Salamanca, New York, never linking up with the main force. Washington's letters indicate that the cross-country trek east to the Finger Lakes region was considered too dangerous, limiting this smaller expedition to a raid north.
The final operation of the campaign occurred September 27. Sullivan sent a portion of Clinton's brigade directly back to winter quarters by way of Fort Stanwix, under Colonel Peter Gansevoort of the 3rd New York Regiment. Two days after leaving Stanwix, near their origination point of Schenectady, the detachment stopped at Teantontalago, the "Lower Mohawk Castle" (also known as Thienderego, Tionondorage and Tiononderoga) and carried out orders to arrest every male Mohawk. Gansevoort wrote "It is remarked that the Indians live much better than most of the Mohawk River farmers, their houses [being] very well furnished with all [the] necessary household utensils, great plenty of grain, several horses, cows, and wagons". The male population was incarcerated at Albany until 1780 and then released.
The action dispossessed the Mohawks of their homes. Local white settlers, homeless after Iroquois raids, asked Gansevoort to turn the homes over to them. Both actions were criticized by Philip Schuyler, then a New York representative to the Continental Congress, because all the Mohawks of Lower Mohawk castle had rejected fighting with the British, and many supported the Patriot cause. Ironically, Schuyler had been Washington's personal preference for command of the expedition, but his relief of command of the Continental Army's Northern Department had led to private service with the army until he could resign his commission, which he did in April 1779.
Exhausted from carrying heavy military equipment, Sullivan's horses reached the end of their endurance on their return route home. Just north of Elmira, New York, Sullivan euthanized his pack horses. A few years later, the skulls of these horses were lined along the trail as a warning to settlers. The area became known as "the Valley of Horses Heads" and is now known as the village and town of Horseheads, New York.
Sullivan, whose illness had slowed the expedition at times, resigned his commission in 1780 when his health continued to worsen.
More than 5,000 Iroquois refugees went to Canada (modern Ontario) for the British to feed. A report from 1778 by John Butler on the Haudenosaunee: "The Indians in this part of the Country are so ill off for Provisions that many have nothing to subsist upon but the roots and greens they gather in the woods" in May, 1778 – i.e., before the expedition. Fearing attack, many Tuscarora and Oneida defected to the British cause. The British granted the Indians 675,000 acres of land in Canada. About 1450 Iroquois and 400 allies lived at one new reserve at Grand River.
In February 1780, retired General Schuyler, now in the Congress, sent a party of pro-rebellion Indians to Fort Niagara to appeal for peace with the British-allied Iroquois. Suspecting a trick by Schuyler, those Iroquois rejected the proposal. The four messengers were imprisoned where one of them died.
Despite widespread dispersion, Washington was disappointed by the lack of a decisive battle and the failure to capture Fort Niagara. Although in truth, Washington's guidance to Sullivan had been that he take Ft Niagara, "if possible," an option not easily within Sullivan's means given the limitations of his artillery (no guns bigger than six inch field howitzers) and his logistics. Iroquois warriors and Loyalists continued to periodically raid the Mohawk and Schoharie Valleys during 1780 and 1781, causing widespread devastation of property and crops, and killing more than 200 settlers. The destruction of Minden on August 2, 1780 was the most destructive raid of property in the course of the four-year civil war. The last significant raid devastated a 20-mile swath of the lower Mohawk Valley in October 1781, but was defeated at the Battle of Johnstown on October 25, 1781. Walter Butler was killed in battle on October 30 at West Canada Creek during the Tory retreat.
The homelands and infrastructure of Iroquois life had been devastated by the campaign. In the long term, it became clear that the expedition broke the Iroquois Confederacy's power to maintain their former crops and utilize many town locations; the expedition appeared to have caused little more than famine and dispersion of the Iroquois people.
Following the war much of the Iroquois land was secured by the United States government in the peace Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) agreed to by the six nations of the Iroquois League. This land was later absorbed by treaties with the State of New York.
Much of the native population of these lands would move to Canada, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. In the wake of the Treaty of Paris (1783), European-Americans began settling the newly vacant areas in relative safety, eventually isolating the remaining pockets of demoralized Iroquois into villages and towns cut off under land treaties with New York State (Wikipedia).
After staying with a family at a "hospitality home" in Badger, I caught the westbound Mixed #203 to Deer Lake. This service was mandated due to the fact that the Trans Canada Highway was nowhere near this stretch of CNR's track. There was no other passenger on the one coach provided and I was invited to join the crew in the van, and I'm sure that a cup of tea was part of the offer. This view is from the cupola (a little reflection of the glass on the right) at MP308 east of Millertown Jct. The westbound mileboard for the yard limit can be seen just beyond the milepost on the telegraph pole, which itself is propped up in the bog by angled stilts. We're heading uphill towards what I believe was the top of Newfoundland, and the trees are disappearing. Even if we're going uphill, our five units - four NF210 and one NF110, totalling 6000h.p. - are probably keeping us at or near track speed, and according to the timetable I still have in front of me, that speed limit is 35mph and after 3.3 more miles it will go up to 40mph. Yes, that's narrow gauge track, but it looked like a Class One mainline to me.
A beautiful spring day in downtown Baker City, Oregon
The small towns of Baker County offer a cornucopia of local and independent small businesses, many featuring locally crafted products that are made in, and in some cases can only be found in Baker County.
Baker City's historic downtown is one of the largest intact turn of the 20th century historic districts in the American West with over 100 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. today the downtown has been lovingly restored and the historic district is now a thriving downtown home to numerous art galleries, restaurants, micro breweries and local independently owned shops, making it the perfect destination for celebrating the holidays and shopping small unique businesses.
For more information about historic downtown Baker City and other small towns throughout Baker County Oregon visit the Baker County Tourism website at www.travelbakercounty.com
Aston Martin Residences offer breathtaking views of the Miami River, Biscayne Bay, and Brickell skyline. Additionally, Aston Martin Residences will be within walking distance of Whole Foods, Brickell City Centre, and Mary Brickell Village.
Aston Martin’s design team will design the building’s interior common spaces including the two private lobbies, the two-level fitness center with ocean views, and a full-service spa among other shared spaces within the development.
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A gift placed on a stone monument enshrining the "Fuji Sengen Daibosatsu".
This picture was taken at the summit of Kozukue Fuji (41m above sea level) in the forest of Kozukue Castle Remains in Kozukue-cho, Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, and Kanagawa.
First letter reads: T. Proctor Hall / M.A., PH.D., M.D. / 1801 Davie Street / Vancouver, Canada - Sunday, Dec. 19, 1920 - Dear Vic, I have written the Abbott Alk. Co. to send to your address a few bottles of medicine and two gross empty bottles. The value of the empty bottles and corks is about $3; and of the medicines an average of $1.25 per bottle. Technically they are all called "pills". Take all the wrappers of the medicines, and they will not take much room among your things. Mrs Cook was buried yesterday. Mrs Cartwright was at the funeral and returns to Seattle tomorrow. We are expecting you Friday morning. If you have a lot of books it is better to pack them in a separate box and, if you have accepted a position in U.S., store them with dome delivery Co. until your return, when they can be sent directly to the Station. Au revoir, ma chere fille, (Goodbye my dear daughter) - signed T. P. Hall
added on the bottom of the letter: Dear Vic, If you pack your few medicines discreetly you will not have any bother with them. R.M.H. (Ruth Maude Hall / her stepmother) - Money is over 18%.
His second wife - Ruth Maude (nee McManus) Hall
(b. 1868 in Iowa, United States – d. 8 September 1942 at age 74 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) - they were married - 10 September 1902 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA)
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 8 September 1942 - Dr. Ruth M. Hall Called by Death Pioneer woman physician, Dr. Ruth Maude Hall, died on Tuesday in her 76th year. She lived at Garrow Bay, Whytecliff, B.C. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she first took up nursing and then became Interested In medicine, graduating from National Medical College in Chicago in 1902. She married Dr. T. P. Hall in 1902 and came with him to British Columbia in 1905. In 1906 the two opened the Hillside Hospital at Burrard and Barclay in collaboration with Dr Ernest Hall and Dr. Robert Telford. In 1908 her husband entered private practice and until his death in 1931 she aided him in his work. Surviving are one son, Dr. Vernon K. Hall, Garrow Bay; two daughters, Miss A, V. Hall of Seattle and Miss U. F. Hall of Vancouver, and three nieces, Miss E. Mildred McManes and Mrs. R. E. Taylor of Vancouver and Mrs. Roy Stchman of Bremerton, Wash., and three granddaughters, The funeral will be held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. from the T. Edwards Chapel to Capllano View Cemetery.
Second letter reads: T. Proctor Hall / M.A., PH.D., M.D. / 1801 Davie Street / Vancouver, Canada - Tuesday night (21 December 1920) - Dear Vio, I have just seen Mr. Dougan at the Child - welfare meeting. He today got word from Nanaimo that they depend on him for two teachers; one in Drawing, Algebra and French. But he knows there is a teacher there who is well up in French, and there would probably be little trouble in adjusting to work among the six teachers. The salary is $1900. I told him we would all like it better to have you nearer home; and to wire Nanaimo whether your services would be acceptable. If so, he will wire you by Wed. night. (page 2) If this position is offered you to at once (or telephone, if it is late) to the man who got you the Idaho position; tell him the conditions and ask him to wire Idaho (at your expense) requesting a release, because offered a much better salary near home. In such cases it is usually easy to find a substitute, and the request is very seldom refused. Stay another day in Seattle, if necessary, to get things cleared up. Of course if Mr. Dougan's offer is not definite and positive no action need be taken. But if it is, act promptly. T. P. Hall (her father)
Clipped from - Times Colonist newspaper - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 25 March 1931 - DR. THOMAS PROCTOR HALL OF VANCOUVER DIED TO-DAY - Brother of Dr. Ernest Hall, Victoria Physician, Succumbs in Terminal City - Dr. Thomas Proctor Hall, seventy-two, physician, scientist and educationist, died at 4 o'clock this morning at the family residence, Crown Crescent, Vancouver, following an illness from heart disease, it was learned here to-day. He was a brother of Dr. Ernest Hall, well-known Victoria physician, and practiced here for a short period many years ago. Dr. Hall, who had resided in Vancouver for the last twenty-six years, had patented literally dozens of inventions and had made many scientific discoveries for which he had not taken out patents. They ranged from a system of reproducing the human voice almost a quarter of a century ago, to taking the flicker out of the early type motion pictures, an automatic stop for gramophones and a model for demonstrating the theory of the fourth dimension. Of unusual ability, he was a specialist In physical science and In mathematics as well as his chosen profession of medicine. Of so retiring and modest a disposition was he, however, than even many of his close friends were unaware of all his talents. With the exception of a new type of therapeutic lamp, his inventions have never been placed on the market. Dr. Hall, among his other scientific investigations, had done a great deal of research work in connection with X-ray. Besides the degrees of B.A.. M.A. and M.D. he was entitled to carry after his name, he had been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, both by Clark University and the Illinois Wesleyan University. He was an honor graduate of the University of Toronto, McMaster University, Toronto, and the National Medical University in Chicago. FOURTH DIMENSION MODEL - Forty years ago he left at Clark University, a model to demonstrate the theory of the fourth dimension. From 1883 to 1884 Dr. Hall was a fellow of Toronto University. For the following five years he was science master at Woodstock College, Ontario. His teaching record was a varied one, including also professorships in natural science at Tabor College, Iowa; physics, Kansas City University; physics and chemistry, National-Medical University, Chicago, and electro-physics, Chicago College of X-ray and Electro-therapy. LEAVES RELATIVES Dr. Vernon K. Hall, his son, practices medicine in Vancouver. Two daughters. Miss A. Violet Hall and Miss Unina S. Hall, reside in Vancouver. Mrs. R. E. Taylor, Mrs. I. Brodigan and Miss Mildred McManus, nieces of the late Dr. Hall, made their home with him for many years. Besides Dr. Ernest Hall, another brother, John Hall, resides in Denver and a nephew. Kenneth McManus, lives in San Francisco. Dr. Ernest Hall left Victoria this afternoon to attend the funeral.
The Phoenix metro area is still filled with empty lots, once farms, as the property owners hold out for higher prices to sell out. View large.
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Nabisco had an offer in the early 1960s with their Shredded Wheat cerials whereby if you collected 10 tokens from the end of the box you could send them off and get a free Dinky Toy - happy days!!
The Dinky Toys Anglia was introduced in 1961.
The models with the original mailing box are very rare, the outer box from Nabisco would have gone straight into the bin or on the back of the fire.
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Ocean Terminal offers a great opportunity to observe different bus stock and it's a quiet and safe place to take photographs. I have always felt this to be one of my favourite locations for bus photography.
Working on Service 22 Volvo B7TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini, number 721 (SN55 BLX) is in the company of Omni City Scania number 988 (SN57 DBO).
This small group of Polish buses were for a time the only buses Lothian had that were not made in Great Britain and the photograph provides a chance to compare two designs. Note how immaculate both of these vehicles are.
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Belgian card offered by Nieuwe Merksemsche Chocolaterie SPRL, Merksem (Antwerp). Photo: Lux- Film, Roma. Silvana Mangano as the rice picker Silvana in Riso amaro/ Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949), released in Flanders and the Netherlands as Bittere Rijst.
Beautiful Italian film star Silvana Mangano (1930-1989) will be remembered most for the sexy rice picker in Riso Amaro/Bitter Rice (1949), and for Tadzio's elegant mother in Morte a Venezia/Death in Venice (1971).
Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
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Google offers a variety of translations of the French word Joie, among them joy, delight, gladness, sunshine and festivity. All of which I definitely want to feature heavily in my 2016 and my photo a day project this year. So this reflection seems particularly apt and just right for my annual 'cover shot'.
(NB - I can claim credit for neither the idea of reflecting 2016 into the word joie, nor the idea of using a spoon as a mirror. I enjoyed putting the two concepts together though)
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Aston Martin Residences offer breathtaking views of the Miami River, Biscayne Bay, and Brickell skyline. Additionally, Aston Martin Residences will be within walking distance of Whole Foods, Brickell City Centre, and Mary Brickell Village.
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After the state of emergency was lifted following a major blizzard that dropped close to 100 cm, I dropped down to see how the ducks were doing. They were happy for the seed being offered by everyone. There were mallards, black ducks and pintails.
French postcard by Editions P.I., offered by Les Carbones Korès, no. 412. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953.
American actor Gregory Peck (1916-2003) was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor and won once – for his performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He almost always played courageous, nobly heroic good guys who saw injustice and fought it. Among his best known films are Spellbound (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Roman Holiday (1953), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Cape Fear (1962).
Eldred Gregory Peck was born in 1916 in La Jolla, California (now in San Diego). His parents were Bernice Mary (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist, and druggist in San Diego. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child, he was sent to live with his grandmother. He never felt he had a stable childhood. His fondest memories are of his grandmother taking him to the cinema every week and of his dog, which followed him everywhere. Peck's father encouraged him to take up medicine. He studied pre-med at UC-Berkeley and, while there, got bitten by the acting bug and decided to change the focus of his studies. He enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and debuted on Broadway after graduation. His debut was in Emlyn Williams' play 'The Morning Star' (1942). By 1943, he was in Hollywood, where he debuted in the RKO film Days of Glory (Jacques Tourneur, 1944). Stardom came with his next film, The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "Peck's screen presence displayed the qualities for which he became well known. He was tall, rugged and heroic, with a basic decency that transcended his roles." He appeared opposite Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) as an amnesia victim accused of murder. In The Yearling (Clarence Brown, 1946), he was again nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe. He was especially effective in Westerns and appeared in such varied fare as David O. Selznick's critically blasted Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946), the somewhat better received Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman, 1948), and the acclaimed The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950). He was nominated again for the Academy Award for his roles in Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947), which dealt with anti-Semitism, and Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King, 1949), a story of high-level stress in an Air Force bomber unit in World War II. In 1947, Peck, along with Dorothy McGuire, David O'Selznick, and Mel Ferrer, founded the La Jolla Playhouse, located in his hometown, and produced many of the classics there. Due to film commitments, he could not return to Broadway but whet his appetite for live theatre on occasion at the Playhouse, keeping it firmly established with a strong, reputable name over the years.
With a string of hits to his credit, Gregory Peck made the decision to only work in films that interested him. He continued to appear as the heroic, larger-than-life figures in such films as Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh, 1951) with Virginia Mayo, and Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956) with Richard Basehart. He worked with Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953). While filming The Bravados (Henry King, 1958), he decided to become a cowboy in real life, so he purchased a vast working ranch near Santa Barbara, California - already stocked with 600 head of prize cattle. In the early 1960s, he gave a powerful performance as Captain Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961) opposite David Niven and Anthony Quinn. The film was one of the biggest box-office hits of that year. Peck finally won the Oscar, after four nominations, for his performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962). He also appeared in two darker films than he usually made, Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962) opposite Robert Mitchum, and Captain Newman, M.D. (David Miller, 1963) with Tony Curtis, which dealt with the way people live. The financial failure of Cape Fear (1962) ended his company, Melville Productions. After making Arabesque (Stanley Donen, 1966) with Sophia Loren, Peck withdrew from acting for three years in order to concentrate on various humanitarian causes, including the American Cancer Society. In the early 1970s, he produced two films, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972) and The Dove (Charles Jarrott, 1974), when his film career stalled. He made a comeback playing, somewhat woodenly, Ambassador Robert Thorn in the horror film The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976) with Lee Remick. After that, he returned to the bigger-than-life roles he was best known for, such as MacArthur (Joseph Sargent, 1977) and the infamous Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele in the huge hit The Boys from Brazil (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1978) with Laurence Olivier and James Mason. In the 1980s, he moved into television with the miniseries The Blue and the Gray (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1982) in which he played Abraham Lincoln, and The Scarlet and the Black (Jerry London, 1983) with Christopher Plummer and John Gielgud. In 1991, he appeared in the remake of his 1962 film, playing a different role, in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). He was also cast as the progressive-thinking owner of a wire and cable business in Other People's Money (Norman Jewison, 1991), starring Danny DeVito. In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was also been awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Always politically progressive, he was active in such causes as anti-war protests, workers' rights, and civil rights. In 2003, Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute, only two weeks before his death. Atticus beat out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third. Gregory Peck died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. He was 87. Peck was married twice. From 1942 till 1955, he was married to Greta Kukkonen. They had three children: Jonathan Peck (1944-1975), Stephen Peck (1946), and Carey Paul Peck (1949). His second wife was Veronique Passani, whom he met at the set of Roman Holliday. They married in 1955 and had two children: Tony Peck (1956) and Cecilia Peck (1958). The couple remained together till his death.
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A more unusual excursion on the Clyde could be taken on a Clyde sludge boat. Offered to pensioners, these journeys combined a day trip “doon the watter” with the offloading of the city’s sewage at a drop off point 4km off Garroch Head at the southern point of Bute.
Although it sounds like an odd pairing, the sludge boat trips were extremely popular, possibly because they were entirely free! The cruises began towards the end of World War I when they were offered to convalescing soldiers then later, other groups. This summer service ran for over 50 years.
Built in 1910, the SS Shieldhall could carry 1500 tonnes of sludge! ..see www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&am...
The MV Garroch Head ended the tradition with its final journey in 1998 when EU legislation prohibited the dumping of sewage into the sea.
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