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Bain News Service,, publisher.
[Babe Ruth Shaking Hands With Pres. Warren Harding, at Yankee Stadium 4/24/23; Dr Chas. Sawyer (President's physician) & Albert Lasker also in box (baseball)]
[1923 Apr. 24]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Sawyer - Lasker - Harding.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35844
Call Number: LC-B2- 5983-7
If she says you lose weight, you lose weight. If she says you need to exercise, you say, "Yes, Doctor," and you exercise. You could never tell her no and will do anything to please her. Best kind of doctor.
Five scientist-astronauts whose selection was announced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on June 27, 1965. They were the fourth group of U.S. astronauts selected by NASA.
Front row, left to right, are P. Curtis Michel, physicist; Harrison H. Schmitt, astrogeologist ; and Joseph F. Kerwin, physician. Back row, left to right, are Owen K. Garriott, physicist; and Edward G. Gibson, physicist.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S66-65248
Date: November 1, 1965
or the physician photographer.
The photographer physician
Ferrotipo su alluminio anodizzato. Fatif view camera. 20X25. Hermagis Portrait lens, Petzval optical design. 200mm f/3.6 (1850s?). EV100 12, luglio, boschi di Carrega (Parma) ore 12:00. Esposizione 10 secondi. New Guy. Sviluppo in solfato ferroso standard. Fissaggio Tiosolfato.
Last but not least.
From wiki- (because I am both lazy and feel the need to inform ; )
"Apothecary is a historical name for a medical practitioner who formulates and dispenses materia medica to physicians, surgeons and patients — a role now served by a pharmacist.
In addition to pharmacy the apothecary also offered general medical advice and a range of services that are now performed solely by other specialist practitioners, such as surgery and midwifery. Apothecaries often operated through a retail shop, which in addition to ingredients for medicines, would also sell tobacco and patent medicines.
In its investigation of herbal and chemical ingredients, the work of the apothecary may be regarded as a precursor of the modern sciences of chemistry and pharmacology, prior to the formulation of the scientific method."
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
Publication:
[Hungary] : [publisher not identified], [1910]
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Nurses, Physicians,
Patients, Operating Rooms
Genre(s):
Postcards
Abstract:
Postcard featuring a black and white photograph of 3 physicians and 4 nurses attending to a patient in an operating room. The patient is wearing a mask, draped in white sheets, and lying down on an operating table. The nurses are wearing full, white operating gowns and head scarves. The nurse on the far right is wearing a dark apron; there is a red cross emblem on her sleeve, and she is holding forceps. The doctors are wearing surgical gowns and caps; two of them are wearing dark aprons. There is a small table with a bottle and some surgical instruments on top. In the back there is an equipment cabinet with some surgical instruments on the shelves and some glass containers with lids on the top.
Extent:
1 postcard : 9 x 14 cm
Provenance:
Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101724673
Permanent Link:
It was known that John Radcliffe, physician to William III and Mary II of England, intended to build a library in Oxford at least two years before his death in 1714. It was thought that the new building would be an extension westwards of the Selden End of the Bodleian Library. Francis Atterbury, Dean of Christ Church thought a 90 ft room would be built on Exeter College land, and that the lower storey would be a library for Exeter College and the upper story Radcliffe's Library. Such plans were indeed prepared, by Nicholas Hawksmoor (fourteen 'Designs of Printing and Town Houses of Oxford by Mr Hawksmoor' were among the drawings offered for sale after Hawksmoor's death), the plans are now in the Ashmolean Museum. Radcliffe's will, however, proved on 8 December 1714, clearly showed his intention that the library be built in the position it now occupies, stating:
And will that my executors pay forty thousand pounds in the terme of ten years, by yearly payments of four thousand pounds, the first payment thereof to begin and be made after the decease of my said two sisters for the building a library in Oxford and the purchaseing the house the houses [sic] between St Maries and the scholes in Catstreet where I intend the Library to be built, and when the said Library is built I give one hundred and fifty pounds per annum for ever to the Library Keeper thereof for the time being and one hundred pounds a year per annum for ever for buying books for the same Library.[2]
A number of tenement houses fronting Catte Street, built right up to the Schools, some gardens, Brasenose College outbuildings and Black Hall occupied the site required for the library. A number of colleges became involved in the development of the site. An added problem was that Brasenose required an equal amount of land fronting High Street in return for the land they were being asked to give up. As a consequence, the Trustees had to negotiate with the owners and the tenants of the houses. An Act of Parliament was passed in 1720 that enabled any corporations within the University to sell ground for building a library. The negotiations dealing with Catte Street took over twenty years.[2]
The choice of architect had been considered as early as 1720 - Christopher Wren, John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, John James, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and James Gibbs were considered. In 1734 Hawksmoor and Gibbs were invited to submit plans. Hawksmoor made a wooden model of his design which is in the Bodleian. Gibbs was eventually chosen for the building.[2]
On 17 May 1737, the foundation stone was laid. The progress of the building and the craftsmen employed is detailed both in the Minute Books of the Trustees and the Building Book, which supplement information given by Gibbs in his Bibliotheca Radcliviana. An extract states:
Mr. William Townsend of Oxford, and Mr. William Smith of Warwick, were employed to be masons; Mr. John Philipps to be the carpenter and joiner; Mr. George Devall to be plumber; Mr. Townsend junior to be stone carver; Mr. Linel of Long-acre, London, to be carver in wood; Mr. Artari, an Italian, to be their plaisterer in the fret work way; Mr. Michael Rysbrack to be sculptor, to cut the Doctor's figure in marble; and Mr. Blockley to be locksmith.
Francis Smith, the father of William, was chosen as one of the masons, but died in 1738 and was succeeded by his son near the beginning of building. In 1739, John Townesend also succeeded his father on the latter's death.[2]
The building was completed in 1748, and a librarian appointed, as was a porter. The opening ceremony took place on 13 April 1749 and soon known as 'the Physic Library'. Despite its name, its acquisitions were varied for the first sixty years, but from 1811 its intake was confined to works of a scientific nature. During the first half of the 19th century the collections included coins, marbles, candelabra, busts, plaster casts, and statues. These collections have since been moved to more specifically appropriate sites. Between 1909 and 1912 an underground book store of two floors was constructed beneath the north lawn of the library with a tunnel connecting it with the Bodleian, invisibly linking the two library buildings, something envisaged by Henry Acland in 1861.[2]
After the Radcliffe Science Library moved into another building, the Radcliffe Camera became home to additional reading rooms of the Bodleian Library. The freehold of the building and adjoining land was transferred from the Radcliffe Trustees to the University in 1927. The interior of the upper reading-room houses a six foot marble statue of John Radcliffe, carved by John Michael Rysbrack.[2] It now holds books from the English, history, and theology collections, mostly secondary sources found on Undergraduate and Graduate reading lists. There is space for around 600,000 books in rooms beneath Radcliffe Square.
Contemporaries found great irony in the fact that the iconoclast Radcliffe, who scorned book-learning, should bequeath a substantial sum for the founding of the Radcliffe Library. Sir Samuel Garth quipped that the endowment was “about as logical as if a eunuch should found a seraglio
Rome, Musei Vaticani, September 2015
A statue of Psamtikseneb ("may King Psamtik be healthy"), holding a stela inscribed with his many titles. These include Sole Companion (of the King), Director of the Palace and, more interestingly, Scorpion Charmer and Dentist.
Inv. 22687 Third Intermediate or Late Period, late 26th to early 27th Dyn. (c. 570 – 520 BCE). Provenance unknown. Green basalt.
3/13/2020 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Bristol Health's Chris Ann Meaney talks about the outdoor specimen collection station set up inside the Queen Street entrance on Friday. The units are open to those who have flu-like symptoms and a written order from a physician to be tested for COVID-19. Hospital officials said the written order is required.
Members of the Springfield College community attend a Physician Assistant graduate certificate ceremony on Friday, May 13, 2002
1894 graduating class, University of Illinois College of Medicine
[My relative, Charles Warrington Earle, is listed with the faculty below.]
Class 1894 Faculty and Graduates College of Physicians and Surgeons
Photograph credited to Brisbois, 125 State Street, Chicago
As pictured, left to right, top to bottom (in best approximation of horizontal rows)
* indicates photographed graduate not listed in Class of 1894 in 1921 alumni record
† indicates faculty/staff
James Walter Townsend
William Von Reis
William R. Vaupell
Albert E. Lauson
James A. Lyons
Benjamin Franklin Andrews
Harry Willis Sutcliffe
Joseph Bryce Holmes
John W. Steffins
John H. Cole
William Dennison Dilworth
Henry Hartung
Charles Clayton Obyrne
Harry J. Hornbogen
Samuel Stevens
Adolph H. Leviton
Harry Mortimer Richter
Franklin Augustus Turner
Ulysses Grant Windell
Edgar Allen Planck
James Alexander Mannon
Samuel B. Lyon
George Arnold Woodcock
Edgar Daniel Kerr
John J. Kerrigan
Milton V. Cunningham
Willis Perry Woodard
Elias B. Mesirow
Robert Eugene Payne
William Penn Roberts
Henry Paul Rhode
Frank Dennis Darcy
George Irving Bluhm
Lewis Joel Isaacs
Daniel Webster Evans
Prof. Henry T. Byford †
James Levy
James M. DeKraker
George Ellsworth Lowry (?)
Ibusina Charles Anker
Prof. L. Hectone †
Prof. James A. Clark †
Charles L. Webster
Berthold Weisenberg
Oscar Morrill Ide
Prof. Albert Philip Ohlmacher †
Prof. William Edward Quine †
Prof. Dudley C. Trott †
Phillip Herriges
George Nelson Manning
Prof. Walter Shields Christopher †
Prof. Albert Edward Hoadley †
Prof. Daniel A. K. Steele †
Prof. Weller VanHook †
Thaddeus Lincoln Round
Prof. J.A. Wesener (John Alfonso Wesener listed in this graduating class)
Prof. Charles Warrington Earle †
Prof. Henry Parker Newman †
Prof. Thomas Archibald Davis †
Peter Frank Crowley
Prof. James Madison Gore Carter †
Prof. George Frank Lydston †
Prof. Oscar Augustus King †
Prof. Boerne Bettman †
Harry Lester Stevens
Gotfried Lewis Karnopp
Prof. Samuel Bruce Buckmaster †
Prof. John B. Murphy †
Prof Alison W. Harlan †
Prof. John Henry Curtis †
Prof. William Allen Pusey †
Ernest E. Leeson
Frederick Francis Doepp
Prof. Thomas Melville Hardie †
Prof. W.C. Caldwell †
Prof. Bayard Taylor Holmes †
Prof. Moreau Roberts Brown †
Frank C. Richmond
E. K. Dihel *
Adolph F. Wohlenberg
Prof. Walter M. Tanquary †
Prof. Robert Hall Babcock †
Prof. Francis Roberta Sherwood †
Henry William Berard
Henry Borst
J. J. Tremblay * (Joseph J. Tremblay listed in Class of 1895)
Thomas Benton Hart
James Charles Oakshette MD
Elijah Barton Pickel MD
Alexander William Shields
Henry Woodul Smith
T. Horkelson *
Homer E. Jamison
Albert Alonzo Foster
Elizabeth M. Heelan, Clerk †
Edwin Sheridan Day
William Aloysius Quinn
Milton Harris Atkins
Thomas J. Buckley
Samuel J. Sornberger
Harry Louis Pollock
Oliver Hendren Donaldson
Michael Charles Mullen
Victor Josephson
Arthur Menko Shabad
Nels Carl Gustof Nelson
Paul Augustus Slater
Oscar Monroe Lanstrum
Michael T. Naughton
J. A. Nelson *
Herbert Luce Watrous
Charles Edward Whiteside
August Wilhelm Uckermann
Edgar I. Bradley
William Simon Brown
Arthur T. Gregory
A. Lauria * (Adolpho Alphonso Luria listed in class of 1895)
Wade D. Stevens
Herman Larsen
Theodore J. Doederlein
Aaron David Davidow
Albert Clemens Rhiel
Harold O. Evensen
Francisco La Spada
William Patrick Burke
Wladyslaw Augustyn Kuflewski
Not pictured:
Matthias Emmanuel Lorenz (M. E. Lorenz pictured in 1893 composite)
Abraham M. Osness
University of Illinois College of Medicine Graduating Class Composite Photos. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library
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Physicians House and Doctors Sugery
ABOUT BRITAIN ALBUM
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157623921574989
Way before the days on the National Health and Doctors Surgery, the only way that the average person could afford to see a Doctor was by joining a Health Club, or something simular, where for a weekly subscription the patient would become a patient of the Doctor. At such times that they became sick the Doctor would either call into the patients home, or more likly the patient would visit the Doctor in surgery hours at his home.
This is an authentic country doctors house transported to Blists Hill form an Estate in Sutherland and re-errected. The surgery still retains the original tools of the Victorian doctors trade.
Diolch yn fawr am 68,266,140 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mwynhewch ac arhoswch yn ddiogel
Thank you 68,266,140 amazing views, enjoy and stay safe
Shot 09.09.2018 at Blist Hill Victorian Museum, Shropshire Ref 136-356 Ref 136-367
"Jesus said to them in reply, ‘It is not those who are well who need the doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance.’"
– Luke 5:32, which is part of today's Gospel at Mass.
Stained glass detail from a window in St Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue, NYC.
Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun, 1964. Grade I listed, pre-stressed concrete with porcelain mosaic cladding. Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, London Borough of Camden.
"I know how you feel about me, you know"
"Oh?"
"You forget the bet you made with me?"
"The bet you welched out on..."
"I know you want me to go 'Notice me', but I have to be mindful of how I act. You know this..."
"Fine. Get your escort."
To a damn fine friend who has tolerated my attempts to be evil since I've rerolled.
To all my Flickr friends! Happy New Year! Sorry I haven't been posting as much last year since physician life and the pandemic got the better of me. Here's hoping 2022 will be a better opportunity for me to photograph more outside and hoping for a better year as well for each one of you. Let's stay strong and safe! Just a friendly reminder from you resident photography loving doctor lol
God Bless, y'all!
Shooting Information:
•Nikon D7200 with MB-D15 Battery Grip
•Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 EX DC HSM
•Manual Mode
•4 Seconds @ 20mm zoom, f/16
•ISO 200
•Flash Not Fired
Post Processing Information:
•Phase One Capture One Pro
•Not Cropped
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The Physician pub, former home of the Birmingham Medical Institute, Harborne Road in Edgbaston, Birmingham, October 2022
Title: Physical Exams
Date: 1950
Location: Lakeland, FL
Description: Children at the Florida Boys Club are given physical exams by Dr. James R. West.
Collection: Dan Sanborn Photograph Collection
ID: p0481
Link: cdm15809.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15809coll...
Format: Still image
Subject(s): Physical Examination
Genre(s): Photographs
Abstract: A physician with a stethoscope is examining a young girl.
Extent: 1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID: 101448718
NLM Image ID: A030385
Permanent Link: resource.nlm.nih.gov/101448718
Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." (Matthew 19:14)
Prayerful Healing for Children
Heavenly Father,
from the moment of creation
you've predestined the salvation of your people
through the resurrection of your divine Son, Jesus
in order for all to believe.
Through His miraculous words,
Lazarus has risen—
eyesight is restored,
leprosy healed,
demons flee;
transformed drinking water into wine,
wonders for all to witness by God's design—
Merciful Father
We humbly petition thee to heal and save our children from illness
beseeching for the grace of deliverance on behalf of all who suffer
from infirmities of the mind, body, and soul (mention your petition).
Almighty God,
We thank thee for hearing our pleas
and restoring our children to health
through tender mercy and healing grace
from your divine Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen
© Loci B. Lenar
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Prayerful Healing is written for anyone in need of encouraging words, especially families with children. I was inspired to write the prayer as a result of what I believe is a miraculous healing through Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of a heart ailment and from years of suffering painful headaches.
Through the blessings and grace of God, I was healed of a heart arrhythmia known as Atrial Fibrillation. The medical condition is treated with Lanoxin, a cardiac medicine. However, I've not used the medication for over twelve years. I was treated by Dr. Gilbert Mandel of Denville, NJ, for the disorder. Additionally, I was healed from years of suffering painful headaches after countless visits to physicians with treatments that went to no avail. Through the power of prayer and Anointing of the Sick, God's healing grace cured me. The healing sacrament is administered through the church. I was anointed with the healing sacrament by Father Richard Tartaglia of Saint Mary's Church, Denville, NJ.
In James 5, Verse 14-15 the following is noted: "Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the presbyters of the church, and they should pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven."
I give praise, glory, and thanks to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for all the spiritual gifts and blessings.
(The beautiful stained glass window of Jesus with children sitting on his lap is not immediately obvious when walking into Saint Mary's Church. The window is small but very captivating when seen. The church is located on the corner of Route 46 and Myers Avenue, Denville, NJ).
The prayer is posted on Christian-Miracles.com at the following link:
www.christian-miracles.com/prayerfulhealing.htm
© 2008 Loci B. Lenar
The Urine Wheel was used for diagnosing diseases based on the color, smell, and taste of the patient's urine in the middle ages
A photographic advertising card from Dr. Joseph C. Kalb, physician & surgeon, Henry, Illinois. 1870's I believe. From the Wright Family CDV Album.
Joseph Claybaugh Kalb was born in Madison, Franklin County, Ohio, June 30, 1831. The 1850 census lists him in the household of his parents, George and Margaret Kalb, who were farmers. Joseph was married on November 22, 1850, to Sophia Cyrena Brown. She was born in April of 1831.
Dr. Kalb graduated from Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, circa 1855. He enlisted October 3, 1861, and became an Assistant Surgeon, commissioned as an officer in Co. S, 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He mustered out on January 6, 1863.
The 1870 census finds him as a physician in Henry, Marshall County, Illinois. He owned real estate valued at $300; and personal estate valued at $500. He and his wife Sophia had two children, Clinton, age 17; and Edna, age 13, both born in Ohio.
Dr. Kalb is again listed as a physician in Henry in the 1880 census. His daughter, Edna, age 22, was still a member of his household.
By 1895, Dr. Kalb was living in Canton, McPherson County, Kansas. He is listed there in the 1895 Kansas State Census and in the U.S. Census of 1900, which lists him as physician & surgeon. The 1910 census lists him in the City of McPherson, McPherson County, Kansas. He is still a physician, is now a widower, and is living in a boarding house.
Dr. Joseph Claybaugh Kalb died October 30, 1910, in St. Joseph's Infirmary, Ft. Worth, Texas, of a cerebral hemorrhage. His death certificate lists him as a non-resident.
Written on reverse: “Lucy Goss & dau. Grace.”
“Photographed by F. Mowrey, Main St., Rutland, Vt.”
Lucy L. (possibly Lavinda) Sheldon, born in 1838, was the daughter of physician Lorenzo Sheldon and his wife Mahala Smith (1804 – 1883). She was named after her paternal grandmother Lucy Bass Sheldon (d. 1831), and was the second child of that born to her parents. The first Lucy had been born sometime before 1837 and died in infancy.
Much is known about the family, and I reproduce here a long section from the “History of Rutland County, Vermont,” edited by H. P. Smith and W.S. Rann; published by D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, New York, 1886:
“Dr. Lorenzo Sheldon, son of Medad [(1776 – 1846)] and Lucy (Bass) Sheldon [(d. 1831)], was born in Rutland, Vt., May 8, 1801. He was the eldest of a family of eleven children, consisting of five sons and six daughters. His father carried on a farm north of what is now known as West Rutland village.
“The subject of the sketch early manifested a desire for a broader culture than a constant devotion to the farm permitted; and, having a taste for the study and practice of medicine, the way was opened for his entrance upon the necessary preparation for that profession. He entered the Academy of Medicine at Castleton, Vt., where he continued his studies until his graduation, January 16, 1820. After completing his course at the medical college he returned to his native place and commenced study and practice with Dr. Jonathan Shaw, with whom he formed a partnership. This connection, however, continued only about one year, when Dr. Shaw removed to Clarendon Springs, leaving young Dr. Sheldon to practice independently in his chosen field.
“He soon won a good practice, and commanded the confidence of the community as a conscientious, attentive, intelligent and skillful physician. After a few years' practice, inducements were held out to secure his removal to Waddington, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to which place he removed in the year 1826.
“On his return, 1828, he entered, with all the ardor and energy of his nature, into the practice of his profession, and won an honored position which he maintained till death, continuing to respond to the last to calls of friends who would not give him up, though he sought relief from the fatigues and cares of practice as the infirmities of age crept on.
“In the year 1829, February 6, Dr. Sheldon was married to Mahala Smith, of West Rutland. Of this marriage were born seven children — Sophronia M., Darwin Rush, Lucy Amorette, Charles S., Lucy L., Harley G., and Mary Kate, only two of whom, Lucy and Harley survive him.
[The Sheldon children, in order of birth, were Sophronia M. (b. 1823); Darwin Rush (1826 – 1834); Charles Smith, born in 1834, who died aged six months and five days in 1835; the aforementioned Lucy the first, who died age four months and eight days in 1837; Lucy; Harley G. (1840 – 1917); and Mary Kate (1844 – 1869).]
“In the year 1835, Dr. Sheldon entered into partnership with Mr. William F. Barnes, and commenced the marble business, then in its infancy. At one time this company owned the entire marble deposit extending from the present quarry of Sheldon & Slason, north. Dr. Sheldon, at a later date, became senior member of the firm of Sheldon & Slason, continuing his connection with the firm till 1865, when he sold out, and ceased to have any connection with the marble business. But he continued to have large interests in real estate, which absorbed a considerable portion of his time through the remainder of his life.
“While the responsibilities of his large marble interests were upon him, he sought some relief from his professional duties, and hence during those years his practice was somewhat restricted.
He died Sunday morning, September 5, 1880, at the age of eighty years.
“He was a prominent member of the Congregational Church from 1826 and deacon from 1865 to his death. He was also a member of the Masonic order and conspicuous in all good works. It was written of him by his biographer: that ‘his was a well-balanced, well-developed, rounded manhood, which, while presenting no very striking features, was strong at every point.’” (from "History of Rutland County, Vermont",)
On the 1850 census of Rutland shows the Sheldon family unit consisted of Lorenzo and Mahala, 26-year-old Saphonia, 12-year-old Lucy, 9-year-old Harley, and 5-year-old Mary.
Shortly after the census was taken, Sophronia (a photo of her is here: www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/14113774436/) married Daniel Conway on 19 May, 1851. He had been born in about 1824 in Ireland, the son of James and Ellen Conway. Sophronia bore Daniel five children: Julia Conway, who died in 24 September, 1854, age two years and five months; Alice Conway (1856 – 1886), Lorenzo Sheldon Conway (1858 – 1932); an unnamed infant born 25 February, 1862, who died 5 June of the same year, and Guy L., born 14 October, 1866, who died 14 May, 1867.
Daniel Conway (photo here: www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/14113763906/in/photost...) served in the Civil War as 2nd lieutenant in the 14th Vermont Infantry, Company H; and as a captain in the 17th Vermont Infantry, Company I. He enlisted 10 September, 1862. His records note that he was “Commissioned an officer in Company H, Vermont 14th Infantry Regiment on 7 Oct., 1862. Mustered out on 30 July, 1863, at Brattleboro, VT.” He then was “commissioned an officer in Company I, Vermont 17th Infantry Regiment on 7 July, 1864. Mustered out on 14 July, 1865, at Washington, D.C.”
Sophronia died 5 November, 1872, of “ossification of the heart.”
Daniel Conway appears alone on the 1880 census, working as a blacksmith. He drew an army pension of $10 per month; the cause for which he was pensioned was “chr. diarrhea.” He lived on, probably uncomfortably, until 1890, when he died of “paralysis” in West Rutland on 22 January. Both, along with their children, are buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Lucy Shelton married Harmon B. Goss, who had been born in 1833 in Hanby, New Hampshire, on 1 September, 1857. He was the son of Rutland hotelier and tavern-keeper Pliny L. Goss (b. 1810) and his wife Jane (b. 1813). On the 1850 census, Harmon appears as a 16-year-old barkeep in his father’s tavern in a hotel occupied by railroad workers, laborers, clerks, and stonecutters.
The marriage was but brief. While pregnant with her first and only child, Lucy suffered the loss of her young husband to Cholera on 16 July, 1861. The disease washed over the United States in waves of epidemic during much of the 1800s. Cholera is an infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are watery diarrhea and vomiting leading to extreme and often fatal dehydration. Transmission occurs through water or foodstuffs tainted by feces from an infected person.
Harmon’s daughter, Grace Mahala, was born posthumously on 19 September. Lucy returned to her father’s home with her child, and remained there at least as late as the day the 1880 census. Her father died in September of that year and her mother passed away in 1883. Lucy died at age 60 of cancer in a house in Pine Street, Rutland, on 18 November, 1898. She is buried in Evergreen Cemetery with her husband.
It is unclear who Lucy and Grace are in mourning for in this image. The clothing and the apparent age of Grace Goss in the photo makes the most likely family member Lucy’s nephew, Guy, the son of Sophronia and Daniel, who died as a toddler in May 1867. The next likely candidate is Lucy’s younger sister Mary Kate, who died in 1869. But Lucy’s fashions and Grace’s appearance make this problematic.
Grace Goss married William Andrew Graham in about 1882. He worked for his entire career as a factory machinist. They had three children: William Robert (1884 – 1950); Katherine Lucy (b. 1886); and Sidney Graham (1889 – 1944). Grace died of Bronchopneumonia, complicated by senility and orthopedic injuries, on 21 June, 1945.
Lucy’s brother Harley’s life can be encompassed in his lengthy obituary, which can be found in the “Rutland Daily Herald” of January 16, 1917:
“Harley G. Sheldon (photo here: www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/13950269517/in/photost...) of West Rutland, a Civil War veteran and well-known farmer of Rutland County, died suddenly at his home yesterday morning. He had been in his usually good health until about 10 minutes previous to his death when he had an attack of heart trouble. He was 76 years old.
“Mr. Sheldon was born September 23, 1840, the son of Lorenzo and Mahala Smith Sheldon. His father was one of the pioneer marble men of the state. Mr. Sheldon graduated in 1857 from the Riverside institute at Auburndale, Mass., and the same year joined the Rutland Light Guard. He responded to the president's first call for volunteers for the defense of the Union and a little later engaged in the Battle of Bethel.
When his first enlistment expired, he joined Company H, 14th Vermont regiment, and was mustered into service October 21, 1862, as first sergeant. The following January the first promotion in the regiment was offered Mr. Sheldon but he declined the honor. On March 12, 1863, he was made second lieutenant in Company K. In December, Mr. Sheldon assisted in the repulse of Stuart's cavalry raid near Fairfax Courthouse in Virginia.
“He was at Wolf Run Shoals doing outer picket duty at Washington from March ‘til June of 1863. Mr. Sheldon's regiment was attached to the first army corps on June 25 and began the march north which ended at Gettysburg.
“Company K., of which Mr. Sheldon was second lieutenant, was the only company which reported all three officers on duty at the end of the march and ready to enter the battle of Gettysburg.
“Mr. Sheldon was mustered out of service in 1863 and a little later joined the army and became attached to the Commissary Department. He was associated with Gen. Farrero's Brigade and remained in this position until the end of the war.
“On December 11, 1866, he married Eliza Harman, and last month they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Besides his wife, Mr. Sheldon leaves a daughter, Mrs. [Mary Sheldon] Erwin E. Keyes [(1867 – 1931)] of this city, and a son, Lorenzo Harmon Sheldon [(1871 -1947)], also of Rutland.
“The funeral will be held at the house tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The burial will be in the family lot in Evergreen cemetery.”
Lucy’s younger sister, Mary Kate, married Delett B. Haynes (1841 – 1883). The couple had one child, William Haynes, who was born in 1868 and lived until 1933. His mother died when he was about a year old, in 1869, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in the family plot.
British postcard. Cinema Chat. Bradley Studios. Selznick.
"Eugene O'Brien, the silent screen matinée idol, was born Louis O'Brien in Boulder, Colorado in 1881, to police marshal John O'Brien and his wife Kate. He studied medicine at the University of Colorado in order to realize his family's ambition that he should become a physician. O'Brien's first love, however, was the stage, but his family disapproved of acting as a profession. He was not keen on becoming a doctor, so he proved to be an unenthusiastic student. After flunking pre-med, O'Brien switched to civil engineering under his family's guidance, but his heart was still set on becoming an actor.
Elitch's Gardens in Denver, a minor stock company, hired the handsome, 21-year-old college-dropout for a minor acting role in 1902, and Louis O'Brien became a professional actor (he later changed his name to Eugene). He moved to New York City, where he was hired by a vaudeville house to be part of a singing quartet in a play, in the role of a Hungarian soldier. After his stint as a chorus boy, his rich baritone voice enabled him to work his way up in the musical comedy genre to small, singing roles. As he learned the ropes of the Broadway stage, he began to make a name for himself as a dramatic actor as well.
Paradoxical, he was "discovered" by theatrical impresario Charles Frohman four years after he had appeared in Frohman's 1905 Broadway musical "The Rollicking Girl". Frohman, one of the great theatrical managers of the times, signed O'Brien to a three-year contract and put him in "The Builder of Bridges," which opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on October 26, 1909.
A New York critic, commenting on his progress in 1909, wrote, "Less than three months ago, the name of Eugene O'Brien had about as much significance for Broadway theatergoers as that of the most obscure actor in some far-off rural community. Yet, in one single night, he achieved a success, the glory of which must ring in his ears yet." Frohman co-starred O'Brien opposite one of the greatest actresses of all times, Ethel Barrymore, in a revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play "Trelawny of the "Wells," which opened at the Empire Theatre on New Year's day, 1911, He had reached the pinnacle of the acting profession in the theater.
O'Brien's first film, Essanay Films "The Lieutenant Governor," in which he had the starring role, played in Boulder's Currant Theater in February 1915, giving his family its first opportunity to see him act. Then, World Film Corp. chief executive Lewis J. Selznick made O'Brien a screen star, putting him in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" for his next movie, and then producing or releasing many of his subsequent pictures.
Very handsome, with a thick head of light brown hair, the blue-eyed O'Brien became a leading man opposite some of the leading female stars of the day, including Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, and Gloria Swanson. A female reporter who interviewed the six-foot, 160-lb. star on the set of Selznick Pictures' "The Perfect Lover" (1919), in which he co-starred with Martha Mansfield and three other actresses, declared that he was "only a bit better looking than I ever imagined any man could be."
He appeared in the Mary Pickford classic "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm 1917), for Pickford's own company and Paramount, as well as in her earlier "Poor Little Peppina" (1916), of which it was said in the hyperbolic bombast of the times "Film has not been seen since its release date." But it was as Talmadge's co-star that he was most remembered, making 11 pictures with her between "Poppy" in 1917 and "Graustark" in 1925. Typically, the Talmadge-O'Brien pictures were made by Talmadge's own company (either Norma Talmadge Film Corp. or Joseph M. Schenck Productions, both of which were run by her husband, Joe Schenck) and released through one of Selznick's companies, or First National after Selznick's bankruptcy.
In the enviable position of being both The Boss and Married to the Boss, Talmadge was featured in strong roles in first-rate pictures, so O'Brien got to prove his acting chops and his versatility. The rumor in the industry was that Talmadge's husband Joe, jealous and anxious about being cuckolded, preferred to hire gay leading men for Talmadge's films. O'Brien and four-time costar Harrison Ford were the prominent names on this rumored "pink-list." Indeed, Schenck's fear of cuckoldry was not unfounded, as his wife did fall in love with Gilbert Roland, whom Schenck had hired to co-star as young-lover Armand Duval opposite her "Camille" (1926).
Eventually, O'Brien reached silent screen superstar status. His life was insured for a million dollars, and he made "an almost unbelievable salary." While he told the press that he preferred acting for a live audience than acting in the movies, and that he longed to return to the legitimate theater, he retired from acting for good, both movies and the stage, when the talkies came in. He made his last film, "Faithless Lover," in 1928. He was 47 years old.
The next year, the former star bought a Hollywood hacienda and moved in. A private man, he told a reporter that he liked his new life as he could do as he pleased whenever he wanted to do, and enjoyed his mornings being alone as opposed to being on a movie set. O'Brien, who said he'd never get married as women were too possessive, declared that he was "untroubled by girls and reveling in athletics, gardening, and most of all in bachelorhood."
Eugene O'Brien made a final visit to his hometown of Boulder, where he was thought of as a hometown hero, in 1952, to attend the funeral of his brother George. He died in 1966 at the age of 85, and although his funeral was held in Hollywood, his body was interred in the family plot in Boulder's Green Mountain Cemetery, next to his parents and brothers. The Prodigal son had returned home at last."
Source: IMDB bio by Jon C. Hopwood.
Brian Dettmer
The Household Physicians
2008
Altered Books
10-1/2" x 8" x 12"
Image Courtesy of the Artist and Kinz + Tillou Fine Art
God chastens those whom He loves.
St. John the beloved disciple and theologian knew this. He recorded the words of The Word – the Alpha and Omega - spoken to those who had become lukewarm in Laodicea. The footnote in the Orthodox Study Bible states that “Preoccupation with material wealth and comfort has deadened the fervor of the Laodiceans. They have fallen into a complacent self-satisfaction which is denounced by the Physician of our souls and bodies. Christ counsels them to seek spiritual wealth, forgiveness, resurrection life, and enlightenment. He offers a loving chastisement which can bring about true healing, true and lasting riches. Gold, white garments and eye salve (v. 18) correspond to the three leading Laodicean industries.”
St. John Chrysostom writes that, “What fire is to gold, chastisement is for the careless.”
Addressing the issue of Lukewarmness, Fr. Alexander Men once wrote that,
“often what passes for Orthodoxy or another Christian confession is simply natural religiosity which, in its own right, is a kind of opium of the people. It functions as a sort of spiritual anesthetic, it helps a person adjust to his surrounding world, over which one can hang the slogan: ‘Blessed is the one who believes that it is cozy in the world.’ This is all wrong! ...Your God is a consuming fire and not a warm hearth, and he is calling you to a place where all sorts of cold winds are blowing, so that what you imagine does not exist. You adapted and developed a completely different teaching to suit your own human needs. You transformed Christianity into a mediocre, popular religion.’ ...Christianity can be authentic and it can be false. The false form is always more convenient. It always suits us better, which is why contemporary religious life is often characterized by a churchly falsehood when people prefer that which is convenient, calm and pleasant, conforms to their own ideas, consoles them, and which they enjoy. It is not at all to this that the Lord called us when he said ‘the gate is narrow’ and ‘the way is narrow.’ Again and again we need to understand that this Spirit is not warmth, but a fire. It is a fire." (About Christ and the Church, p 52-53.)
Does this understanding of God’s Love oppose or contradict the unconditional Love of the Father for the Prodigal Son? (Lk. 15:11-32) No – for when God chastens those whom He loves, it is only so that they might wake up and repent. In the parable of the prodigal son, there is no discipline from the Father when he goes out to meet his son on the road, for the son was returning in repentance and contrition of heart – what needed to happen had already happened – there was no further need to chasten the one who had already acknowledged his transgressions and was repenting of them.
The Gospel is full of instances where Jesus rebukes and chastises those in error. Even the apostles were chastised by the savior - but Christ’s words to them were always truth spoken in love. It’s hard to imagine an earthy father who wouldn’t say or do something for his children who were in danger, or a shepherd who would not attempt to correct the path of a sheep who had gone astray. We acknowledge this in the pre-communion prayers: “For You do not wish, Master, that the work of Your hands should perish, neither do You take pleasure in the destruction of men, but You desire that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.”
One of my favorite scripture verses of all time follows immediately after Christ’s call to repentance: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” (Rev. 3:20)
"Joy and sorrow are this ocean
And in their every ebb and flow
Now the Lord a door has opened
That all Hell could never close
Here I'm tested and made worthy
Tossed about but lifted up
In the reckless raging fury
That they call the love of God"
+Rich Mullins
Caption: University of Illinois College of Physicians and Surgeons, Fidelis Infirmis, Class 1904
Photographer: Geo. H. Paltridge, 653-655 W. Madison St., Chicago
Description: As pictured, left to right, top to bottom
* indicates photographed graduate not listed in 1921 alumni record
† indicates faculty/staff
‡ indicates photo missing from composite
William Lorenza Nuckolls
Charles R. A. Windmueller
Alfred Stocker MD
Spencer Norman Chaffee BS
T. C. Haecker *
Francis Harvey Gambell MD
John Snook MD
Oscar Paul Schnetzky MD
William Henry Durkee
Stephen Tyler Parsons
C. F. Baldwin *
William Eugene Dickinson
Otto Balensiefer PhG
T. H. Plank * (there is a Tilman Howard Plank listed in the class of 1905)
Arthur Murphy Crandall MD
Arthur Lell Leeds BS MD
Royal James Dunn
C. E. Goodwin * (there is a Charles Edwin Goodwin listed in the class of 1905)
Edward Anton Mayer PhG
Anson Torence Miller
Miles Akin Heffelfinger
Orlando Garfield Wood
William John Vopata
Henry Spencer Capps BS MD
Jacob Leonard Eisendrath
H. J. H. Hoeve * (there is a Hubertus H. J. Hoeve listed in the class of 1905)
Edna Margaret Thomas (McHugh)
Hanna Miller
Margaret Teigen BS
Clara Moore
Esther Gimson
Veda C. Chipperfield Murphey
Helen Elvira Gregg
Susie Marion De Cou (Bockoven)
Florence Anna Wing
X. E. Bond AM * (there is a Xenia Ethel Bond listed in the class of 1905)
Susan Lillian Koons
Martha L. Longstreet
Edith Cory Pollock
Ellen Pauline Ketchum
Flora Matina Tanquary ‡
Rosina Rehor Wistein
Helen Pearl Beattie (Tennies)
Robert Allan Oakes
Edwin Wilson Gray
Howard Demarest Eaton AB
Michael Nelson MD
David Gladstone Borges
George Beveridge AB
Aloys Heinen
George C. Amerson
Emil Haberman
David Barnett Blumstein
Julien Bezal Beck
Irwin Adelbert Gardner
Thomas James Costello
John Philip Dougherty
Henry Richards
Samuel Nuel Colliver
Joseph Aloysius McGoey PhG MD
C. J. King *
Charles Davison MD †
Sanger Brown MD †
William Kilbourn Jaques PhM MD †
Albert John Ochsner BS FRMS MD †
Robert Hall Babcock AM MD †
William Augustus Evans MS MD †
Daniel Atkinson King Steele MD †
Andrew Sloan Draper LLD†
Frank Breckinridge Earle MD †
John Erasmus Harper AM MD †
John Lincoln Porter MD †
Don Lee Shaw MD †
Fred Carl Zapffe MD †
Charles Sumner Bacon AM PhB MD †
Charles Spencer Williamson BS MD †
Charles E. Yates
Orson Eugene Matter MD
Harry Oscar White MD
Bert John Dillon
Nehemiah Paul Mead PhG
George Paul Hohly
William Henry Carr BS
Andrew McDermid MB MD FSMC †
William Lincoln Ballenger MD †
Stephen Gano West MD †
Charles Samuel Woods MD †
G. Frank Lydston MD †
Henry Parker Newman AM MD †
William Edward Quine MD †
Henry Turman Byford AM MD †
Bayard Holmes BS MD †
Edwin Graffam Earle MD †
Frank Eldridge Wynekoop MS MD †
L. Blake Baldwin MD †
Arthur Mills Corwin AM MD †
George Joseph Kruk
Daniel Winfield Layman
Willis Townsend Hinman PhG
Edgar D. Heaton
Peter Hubert Cremer
Gratian Philip Whitwham
Carl Adam Starck
George Meek Ingham
Charles Clayton O’Byrne MD †
William Thomas Eckley MD †
Harris Ellett Santee PhD MD †
Twing Brooks Wiggin MD †
George Peter Dreyer AB PhD †
John Alphonso Wesener PhC MD †
Arthur Henry Brumback MD †
Oscar A. King MD †
Francis Roberta Sherwood MD †
John Fisher MD †
Edward Franklin Wells MD †
Channing Whitney Barrett MD †
Henry Leland Tolman †
Daniel Nathan Eisendrath AB MD †
Henry Ludwig Halverson
William Perry Woods AB
Wayne Adelbert Harris
Frederick James Swift
Frank Deacon
D. Edmund Cone BS BPd
Luther Martin Marvel
Fred Jerome Walter MD
E. S. Gordon *
Arthur Ellison Midgley MD
Bernard Fantus, MD †
Alexander Hugh Ferguson MB CM FTMS MD †
Maurice Louis Goodkind MD †
William McIntyre Harsha AB MD †
Thomas Archibald Davis MD †
William Allen Pusey AM MD †
Carl Beck MD †
Joseph McIntyre Patton MD †
Adolph Gehrmann MD †
Lee Harrison Mettler MD †
Albert Leroy Doe
Hartford Sweet AB
Robert Edward McCracken PhG
Frederick August Baumgart
Frank Richard Curney
Clauson Morril Wilmot
Frederick Murray Doyle MD
John Norton Thorpe
Robert Warren Blumenthal
Guy Maynard Cushing MD
George Vincent Ridley
William Henry Lipman
E. R. Field Sten. †
William Henry Browne Supt. †
J. S. Tomlinson Cshr. †
M. M. Loomis Lib. †
Elizabeth M. Heelan, Clk. †
John Percy Nelson
Athol Llewellyn Cook
Robert E. Stevens
Ross Harrison Axe
Clarence Heathcote Wall
Dirk John Scholten BS
Harold Roy Lucas
Alfred Stirgus Price
Paul Otto Schallert MA BS
Charles Mickel Gray MD
John Richard Dale
J. Eliot Foltz
John Wesley Morrison
Karl August Danell AB
James Burnett Hundley
Frank J. Blackmer
George Frederick Cook
John Wirt Robinson BS
Charles E. Ericson
Charles Casper Swab
William Emery Harrington
Corrydon Goodrich Snow
Port McWhorter
Robert Thornton Ewan
Bryce Rex Winbigler
Carl Albert Gesswein
Clarence Dryden Barker
Edward Leo Hallinan
Clyde Leroy Smith
Frank Marion Horstman PhG
Grace Frith Hagans (Jerger)
Cornelius Gunderson
William Henry Bahl
William Thomas Oake PhG
William Likely Simpson BD
John Algernon Cavanaugh
Olav Bóhmer BA
Loren G. Blackmer
Wilfred Henry Gardner MD
James Bolton Knipe PhG
Eugene George Campana
Otto John Dewitz PhG
Andrew Peter Hawkins PhG
Samuel Joseph Russel MD
Roy Robert Morden
Frederick Alonzo Bordwell
Albert Orton Carmack
Arthur Lee Harnett
Stephen V. Haessly
Percy Parker Haslit
Walter Allan McEachern
Chester Deric Updegraff MD
William Henry Spencer
Charles William Giesen
David James Twohig
Albert Francis Henning
George Henry Thomas
Charles Albert Coffin
Hillis H. Hattery
James Robert Bean
John Campbell Murphy
Ray C. Ash
Manferd Robert Martin
Owen Ghormley Hutchinson
Charles Andrew Archer
William Frederick Wergen
William Frederick Houk
Isaac Lott Gotthelf
Max Biesenthal
George Timothy Joyce
William H. Young BS
William Shelton Osborn
Harry Baldwin Gudgel
Seth A. Hammel
Andrew John Heimark
Charles Wesley Mattison BS
William Watson Gailey Jr.
Frederick Cuttle
Frank Elmer David DDS
Frank Leighton Wood
Fred Brittin
Jay Latrell Armstrong
Edward Taylor Jarvis
Benjamin Gabriel Landau
Trovalo Chester Coggshall
Ernest deLacey Seymour
Theodore Simon Kammerling
Edward Luke
Edward William Cooney
Gustav Adolph Landmann
Franklin Commodore Dielman
Charles Everett Jones PhC
James Redman Montgomery BS
Frank Miles Keefe
Benjamin E. LeMaster PhG
Schuyler Winfred Case
Samuel J. Dickey
Chester Arthur Ayres
Howard Roswell Bankerd AB
David Holmes Morton ‡
Ira Chase Harman AB
Chalmer N. Hatfield
Richard Ames Burke
Frank Bashford Taylor
Robert Lyman Morris
Harry Francis Rubel BD
Cyrus Forsyth Newcomb
Sherman L. Loupee
Alfred Augustus Herrmann
LeRoy John Holmberg
Ralph Thompson Hinton
Louis Ferdinand Alrutz
Josef Francis Replogle
Joseph Ainsworth Greaves
Not pictured:
Wilson Ruffin Abbott
Orrin C. Amundson
George Washington Bamberger
Louis Faulkner
Herbert Work Ferry
Henry Eugene Nelson
Don Lewis Parker
Charles Henry Pickett
James Lawrence Smith (J. L. Smith pictured in 1903 composite)
Arthur John Stuenkel
Source: University of Illinois College of Medicine Graduating Class Composite Photos. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library
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+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Although an air wing for the fledgling Khmer Royal Army (ARK) was first planned in 1952, it wasn't until April 22, 1954, however that the Royal Khmer Aviation (French: Aviation Royale Khmère; AVRK) was officially commissioned by Royal decree. Commanded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk's personal physician, Colonel Dr. Ngo Hou and known sarcastically as the "Royal Flying Club", the AVRK initially operated a small fleet of four Morane-Saulnier MS 500 Criquet liaison aircraft, two Cessna 180 Skywagon light utility aircraft, one Cessna 170 light personal aircraft, and one Douglas DC-3 modified for VIP transport. At this stage, the AVRK was not yet an independent service; since its earlier personnel cadre was drawn from the Engineer Corps, the Ministry of Defense placed the AVRK under the administrative control of the Army Engineer's Inspector-General Department.
During the first years of its existence, the AVRK received assistance from France – which under the terms of the November 1953 treaty of independence had the right to keep a military mission in Cambodia –, the United States, Japan, Israel, and West Germany, who provided training programs, technical aid, and additional aircraft. Japan delivered three Fletcher FD-25 Defender single-seater ground-attack aircraft and three Fletcher FD-25B two-seat trainers, whilst deliveries by the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (US MAAG) aid program – established since June 1955 at Phnom Penh – of fourteen North American T-6G Texan trainers, eight Cessna L-19A Bird Dog observation aircraft, three de Havilland Canada DHC L-20 Beaver liaison aircraft, seven Douglas C-47 Skytrain transports (soon joined by with two additional C-47 transports bought from Israel) and six Curtiss C-46F Commando transports. The French delivered in 1954-55 fifteen Morane-Saulnier MS 733 Alcyon three-seat basic trainers and twenty former Armée de l’Air F8F Bearcat that had been taking part in the French Indochina War.
The Grumman F8F (G-58, Grumman Aircraft's design designation) Bearcat was a U.S. Navy/Marine Corps single-engine, fighter aircraft. It was introduced late in World War II as a carrier-based fighter. In replacing the obsolescent F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat, climb rate was an important design factor for the F8F, which was faster and lighter than the F6F carrier-based fighter. In late 1943, Grumman began development of the F8F Bearcat and deliveries from Grumman began on 21 May 1945.
In 1946, the F8F set a climb record of 6,383 fpm and held this record until it was broken by a jet fighter in 1956. Early F8Fs first flew in August 1944, followed by production aircraft starting in February 1945, the war ended before the F8F saw combat.
The F8F was Grumman’s last piston engine fighter Production ended in 1949, after Grumman had produced 1,265 F8F Bearcats in total. Directly after the war, the F8F was a key fighter for the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps. Since it was one of the best-handling piston fighters ever, its performance made it the top selection in 1946 for the U.S. Navy’s elite Blue Angels demonstration squadron. When the F8F became obsolete (The last ones in U.S. service were retired in 1952), it was replaced with jet fighter aircraft, the F9F Panther and the F2H Banshee.
From 1946 to 1954, the F8F saw it first combat during the French Indochina War, being used by French forces. Surviving Bearcats from that war were given to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force and to Cambodia. The Royal Thai Air Force also flew a number of Bearcats that were purchased from the U.S. Navy.
These deliveries allowed the AVRK to acquire a limited light strike capability, as well as improving its own reconnaissance and transportation capabilities. A small Helicopter force also began to take shape, with the delivery in 1958-59 of three Sikorsky H-34 Choctaws by the US MAAG, followed in 1960 of two Sud Aviation SA 313B Alouette II by the French and of two Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaws by the Americans in 1963.
Although Cambodia was theoretically forbidden of having fighter jets under the terms of the July 1955 Geneva Accords, the AVRK did receive its first jet trainers in September 1961 from France, in the form of four Potez CM.170R Fouga Magisters modified locally in 1962 to accept a pair of AN/M2 7,62mm aircraft guns and under-wing rocket rails. By the end of the year, the AVRK aligned 83 airframes of American, Canadian and French origin, though mostly were World War II-vintage obsolescent types well past their prime – US MAAG advisors often described the AVRK at the time as an "aerial museum" – and training accidents were far from uncommon.
The baptism of fire of the AVRK came the following year when its F8F Bearcats, FD-25 Defenders and T-6G Texan armed trainers supported Khmer Royal Army troops in Takéo Province fighting a cross-border incursion by Vietnamese militiamen from the Hòa Hảo militant sect fleeing persecution from the neighboring Republic of Vietnam. The obsolete Texans and Defenders were eventually replaced in August that year by sixteen North American T-28D Trojan trainers converted to the fighter-bomber role. Also under the US MAAG program, the AVRK received in March 1963 four Cessna T-37B Tweet jet trainers; however, unlike the Fougas provided earlier by the French, these airframes had no provision for weapon systems, since the Americans resisted Cambodian requests to arm them.
In response to the coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm in South Vietnam, Prince Sihanouk cancelled on November 20, 1963 all American aid, and on January 15, 1964 the US MAAG program was suspended when Cambodia adopted a neutrality policy, so the AVRK continued to rely on French military assistance but at the same time turned to Australia, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and China for aircraft and training. In November 1963 the Soviets delivered an initial batch of three MiG-17F fighter jets, one MiG-15UTI jet trainer and one Yakovlev Yak-18 Max light trainer. France continued to deliver aircraft to Cambodia in 1964-65, supplying sixteen night-attack Douglas AD-4N Skyraiders and six Dassault MD 315R Flamant light transports, soon followed by more Alouette II and Sud Aviation SA-316B Alouette III light helicopters and ten Gardan GY-80 Horizon light trainers, which replaced the obsolete MS 733 Alcyons. The Yugoslavians provided at the time four UTVA-60AT1 utility transports, whilst the USSR delivered one Ilyushin Il-14 and eight Antonov An-2 Colt transports, and China sent one Chinese-built FT-5 jet trainer, ten Shenyang J-5 fighter jets, and three Nanchang BT-6/PT-6 light trainers. Not to be outdone, the Soviets delivered in April 1967 a second batch of five MiG-17F jets and two Mil Mi-4 Hound light helicopters.
Like the other branches of the then FARK, the Royal Cambodian Aviation's own military capabilities by the late 1960s remained unimpressive, being barely able to accomplish its primary mission which was to defend the national airspace. Due to its low strength and limited flying assets, the AVRK was relegated to a combat support role by providing transportation services to ARK infantry units and occasional low-level close air support (CAS) to ground operations. Apart from two modern tarmacked airstrips located respectively at Pochentong and at a Chinese-built civilian airport in Siem Reap, the other available airfields in the country at the time consisted of rudimentary unpaved runways that lacked permanent rear-echelon support facilities, which were only used temporarily as emergency landing strips but never as secondary airbases.
Consequently, and in accordance with Cambodia's neutralist foreign policy, few combat missions were flown. AVRK activities were restricted to air patrols in order to protect Cambodia's airspace from the numerous incursions made by US Air Force (USAF), Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) and Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) aircraft.
It was not until the late 1960s however, that the AVRK received its first sustained combat experience. In early 1968, its T-28D Trojans, F8F Bearcats, AD-4N Skyraiders and some MiG-17F jets were again sent to Takéo Province, dropping bombs on pre-planned targets in support of Royal Army troops conducting a counter-insurgency sweep against armed elements of the Vietnamese Cao Đài militant sect that had entered the province from neighboring South Vietnam; AVRK combat elements were also deployed in the Samlot district of Battambang Province, where they bombed Khmer Rouge insurgent strongholds. In November 1969, the AVRK supported the Khmer Royal Army in a restrained sweeping operation targeting People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Vietcong (VC) sanctuaries at Labang Siek in Ratanakiri Province. Some T-28D and F8F fighter-bombers, L-19A reconnaissance aircraft and Alouette helicopters provided air cover to the ground operation, whilst a few combat sorties were staged by the MiG-17F jets and AD-4N Skyraiders from Pochentong.
In the wake of the March 1970 coup, the Royal Cambodian Aviation was re-designated Khmer National Aviation (French: Aviation Nationale Khmère; AVNK), though it remained under Army command. After securing material support from the United States, South Vietnam, and Thailand, the new Khmer National Aviation immediately commenced combat operations, and embarked on an ambitious re-organization and expansion program. Shortly after the coup, however, the French military mission suspended all the cooperation with the Cambodian armed forces, thus depriving the AVNK of vital training and technical assistance. China and the Soviet Union also severed their military assistance programs, which resulted in serious maintenance problems for its Shenyang and MiG fighter jets.
With the increase in activity at Pochentong airbase, the AVNK Air Academy (French: École de l'Air; formerly, the Royal Flying School) was moved in August 1970 to quieter and less congested facilities at Battambang airfield. The RVNAF flew numerous combat missions inside Cambodia since March in support of joint FANK/Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) ground operations, and to better coordinate its own missions they established at Pochentong a liaison office, the Direct Air Support Centre (DASC) Zulu. In addition, South Vietnamese O-1D Bird Dog Forward air controllers began regularly staging reconnaissance flights from Pochentong to guide RVNAF airstrikes and artillery fire.
An initial expansion of the AVNK inventory in September 1970 under American auspices was accomplished with the delivery of six UH-1 Iroquois helicopter gunships with temporary South Vietnamese crews. To ease maintenance, it was decided upon American suggestion to build the AVNK's strike component around the T-28D Trojan, since both its pilots and ground technicians were already well-acquainted with this aircraft type, and the Americans had plenty of surplus airframes and spare parts available. As a result, the rate of T-28D sorties increased, with 2,016 sorties being recorded between March and October 1970, in contrast to the 360 sorties of the MiG-17F and Shenyang fighter jets, and the 108 strikes of the Fouga Magister jets registered during that same period.
On the night of 21–22 January 1971, a hundred or so-strong People’s Army of Vietnam "Sapper" Commando force (Vietnamese: Đặc Công, equivalent of "spec op" in English) managed to pass undetected through the defensive perimeter of the Special Military Region (Région Militaire Speciale – RMS) set by the Cambodian Army around Phnom Penh and carried out a spectacular raid on Pochentong airbase. Broken into six smaller detachments armed mostly with AK-47 assault rifles and RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launchers, the PAVN raiders succeeded in scaling the barbed-wire fence and quickly overwhelmed the poorly armed airmen of the Security Battalion on duty that night. Once inside the facility, the raiders unleashed a furious barrage of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades against any aircraft they found on the parking area adjacent to the runway and nearby buildings; one of the commando teams even scaled the adjoining commercial terminal of the civilian airport and after taking position at the international restaurant located on the roof, they fired a rocket into the napalm supply depot near the RVNAF apron.
When the smoke cleared the next morning, the Khmer National Aviation had been virtually annihilated. A total of 69 aircraft stationed at Pochentong at the time were either completely destroyed or severely damaged on the ground, including many T-28D Trojans, virtually all remaining eight F8Fs, nearly all the Shenyang, MiG, T-37B and Fouga Magister jets, all the L-19A Bird Dogs and An-2 transports, the UH-1 helicopter gunships, three VNAF O-1 Bird Dogs and even a VIP transport recently presented to President Lon Nol by the South Vietnamese government. Apart from the aircraft losses, 39 AVNK officers and enlisted men had lost their lives and another 170 were injured. The only airframes that escaped destruction were six T-28D Trojans temporarily deployed to Battambang, ten GY-80 Horizon light trainers (also stationed at Battambang), eight Alouette II and Alouette III helicopters, two Sikorsky H-34 helicopters, one T-37B jet trainer, and a single Fouga Magister jet that had been grounded for repairs. Pochentong airbase was closed for almost a week while the damage was assessed, wreckage removed, the runway repaired, and the stocks of fuel and ammunitions replenished.
After this severe blow, The Cambodian Air Force was reborn on June 8, 1971, when it was made a separated command from the Army and thus became the third independent branch of the FANK. This new status was later confirmed on December 15, when the AVNK officially changed its name to Khmer Air Force (French: Armée de l'air Khmère; AAK), or KAF. New airbases were laid down near the provincial capitals of Battambang, Kampong Cham and Kampong Chhnang. However, in 1975, the Cambodian Army was defeated by advancing Khmer Rouge forces. On April 16 KAF T-28D Trojans flew their last combat sortie by bombing the Air Force Control Centre and hangars at Pochentong upon its capture by insurgent units. After virtually expending their entire ordnance reserves, 97 aircraft escaped from Pochentong, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kampong Thom, Kampong Chhnang and Ream airbases and auxiliary airfields flown by their respective crews (with a small number of civilian dependents on board) to safe haven in neighboring Thailand, and the AVNK ceased to exist.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 28 ft 3 in (8.61 m)
Wingspan: 35 ft 10 in (10.92 m)
Height: 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m)
Wing area: 244 sq ft (22.7 m²)
Aspect ratio: 5.02
Airfoil: root: NACA 23018; tip: NACA 23009
Empty weight: 7,650 lb (3,470 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 13,460 lb (6,105 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Pratt & Whitney Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34W Double Wasp 18-cylinder air-cooled radial piston
engine with 2,100 hp (1,600 kW), driving a 4-bladed constant-speed propeller
Performance:
Maximum speed: 455 mph (732 km/h, 395 kn)
Range: 1,105 mi (1,778 km, 960 nmi)
Service ceiling: 40,800 ft (12,400 m)
Rate of climb: 4,465 ft/min (22.68 m/s)
Wing loading: 42 lb/sq ft (210 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.22 hp/lb (0.36 kW/kg)
Armament:
4× 20 mm (.79 in) AN/M3 cannon in the outer wings
2,000 lb (907 kg) of ordnance on three hardpoints (incl. bombs, rocket pods, napalm tanks
or drop tanks), plus underwing hardpoints for up to four 5” (127 mm) HVAR unguided rockets
The kit and its assembly:
This was a submission for the “One Week” Group Build at whatifmodellers.com, and both kit and livery were chosen with a focus on quick/safe realization. The idea had been lingering for some time, though. I originally had the plan to build a real-world AVNK AD-4N some day, after I had found a profile and b/w pictures of these aircraft as well as a set of suitable roundels (see below). However, when I recently dug through The Stash™ I came across a Monogram F8F (in a more recent Revell re-boxing, though) and wondered about a different livery for this small fighter – and the AVNK idea popped up again, also because the outlines of Bearcat and Skyraider are quite similar.
The Monogram F8F was basically built OOB, just with some cosmetic changes. Inside, I added a dashboard – the kit comes with one, but it is molded into the fuselage halves with an ugly seam. For the beauty pics I also prepared a more modern pilot figure with a “bone dome” instead of the WWII USN pilot.
A styrene tube was added behind the engine block to take the propeller’s new metal axis. Some antennae were added to the rear fuselage, as an addition to the vintage wire antennae. A small pitot was added under the left wing, made from wire.
The underwing pylons received scratched shackles, because I replaced the OOB vintage 500 lb bombs with box fins with napalm canisters, simulating BLU-1 shapes with shortened/modified drop tanks. HVARs and the ventral drop tank come from the kit, I just added some struts to the tank.
The Monogram F8F in 1:72 holds only small surprises. It's a typical vintage Monogram kit (IIRC, the molds are from 1976) with raised (yet fine) details and vague fit - even though nothing fatal. PSR was basically necessary at any seam, esp. the unique wing/fuselage solutions calls for some filling. The cockpit interior is bare, but, except for the (quite nice) seat and the dashboard, nothing can be seen later. The clear parts (two pieces) are very clear but came with lots of flash; the windscreen's attachment point to the sprue (at the front's base) created some wacky gaps on the kit – with more time and effort, this could certainly have become better. The landing gear is simple but O.K., very robust, but the wells are totally bare, and the oil cooler intakes are just holes - I filled them with bits of foamed styrene. There are certainly better F8F kits (e. g. the Art Model kit with resin parts, including a finely detailed landing gear wells interior), but for a "budget build" or a conversion this one is a good starting point.
Painting and markings:
I used the AVNK’s AD4Ns as benchmark, which carried a livery similar to the French Skyraiders: overall painted in silver with some colorful trim, just the roundels and tactical markings were different. Being former French aircraft, the AVNK F8Fs might have retained the original all-dark blue paint scheme, but I rather expected them to carry a uniform livery.
With this benchmark the scheme was quickly applied, using Humbrol 56 (aluminum dope) enamel paint as a rather greyish basis. As an extra I added a dark olive drab (Humbrol 108) anti-glare panel to the area in front of the windscreen, and I added black anti-soot and probably anti-glare fields for night operations to the fuselage flanks, inspired by the AVNK AD-4Ns. The only colorful markings are small red fin, tailplane and wing tips as well as a matching fuselage band (created with Humbrol 19). The red fuselage bands were created with 5 mm wide generic red decal stripes (TL-Modellbau) which match the enamel paint’s tone well.
As a weathering measure I painted the starboard aileron and elevator as well as a gun cover on the portside wing in Dark Sea Blue (FS 35042), representing replacement parts that were hastily cannibalized from another ex-French F8F that still carried its original livery. Some patches for small firearms bullet holes on the wings and fuselage were created with pieces of grey decal sheet. – all measures to break up the otherwise rather simple and dull livery.
The model received some good weathering through a black ink washing and generous post-panel shading with acrylic Revell 99 (a matt but bright aluminum tone) and later some graphite, which emphasizes the kit’s many raised surfaces details. In order to make the livery not look too much like an NMF finish the kit was later sealed with matt acrylic varnish.
The cockpit interior became chromate green with a light grey dashboard while the landing gear retained its colors from the former French all-blue livery, with chromate green wells and inner cover surfaces but dark sea blue struts and wheel hubs.
The Cambodian roundels came from a limited edition Cutting Edge 1:72 decal set for various MiG-15bis’, the tactical codes on cowling and fin belong to an USAF F-100 (PrintScale sheet).
Well, the result is not perfect, but for a project realized from box to beauty pics including an extensive background story in just a single week I am fine with it. I'll admit that the livery is very simple, but there's also some attractiveness to it. And in this rather unusual silver-grey scheme the F8F reminds a lot of the bigger Skyraider!