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A famous old machine, on display in my favorite desert town, the “Southern Entrance to Death Valley”, Shoshone California.
It seems I’ve always recognized the Fresno scraper. Did I see some of them 85 years ago when I was little? In my mind’s eye I can see a Fresno scraper being pulled by two horses and raising clouds of dust as it graded a dirt road.
This is the piece of equipment that created and maintained thousands of miles of old time roads. Modern bulldozer blades still echo the shape of the Fresno Scraper.
single engined antique rental scraper hired in after stations mobiles went o.o.s. Oddie was the driver
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Holga 120N with Kodak 400VC-2.
東京都庁舎 Tōkyō Tochōsha / 新宿区 / 東京都 / 本州 / 日本国.
A chilling premonition in this drawing by R.B. Fuller which appeared in the March, 1918 issue of Cartoons magazine.
Ralph Briggs Fuller was born in Michigan in 1890 and attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He was best known for his "Oaky Doaks" comic strip which debuted in 1935. Fuller died in 1963.
Courtesy of @eggjuggler - ©
Scraper bike style Xtracycle, inspired by the Scraper Bikes of Oakland, CA
Taken on my Leica M7 and Summicron M 35mm f2/ ASPH lens and shot on Kodak TMax 400, 135 film. Proccessed and scanned by Aperture Photography, 27 Rathbone Place, London W1T.
It looks like an oversized shovel.and was hitched to a horse or team of mules to "scrape", or level the ground in preparation for the actual digging of the canal. Morris,IL
Conical core with flake - "PALEO TOOLS: The kinds of tools used by the Paleoindians can tell us much about their way of life. Most of the tools surviving today are made of stone. Spear points, knives, drills, and scrapers are typical Paleoindian artifacts. They were used for a variety of tasks, including hunting and butchering animals, processing plants, and working raw materials to make other tools. Archaeological sites of the Paleoindians contain mostly chipped stone tools and waste flakes left from the manufacturing process. However it is almost certain that these people made wide use of other raw materials including bone, wood, ivory, and antler. Objects made of these materials do not preserve as well as stone and have likely decayed over the past 10,000 years. Springs, sinkholes and deep river beds offer good conditions for preserving organic materials because of their high mineral content and lack of oxygen. Fragments of bone, wood, and other plant remains will give clues to future archaeologists who research the skills that Paleoindians needed to survive in Ice Age Florida. " ~ Display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. (Photo 091712-013.jpg) Paleoindians section of the Division of Historical Resources - Florida Museum of History - Where I used to work - September 17, 2012: A Walk Down Memory Lane - revisiting College Town - Tallahassee, Florida. (c) 2012 - photography by Leaf McGowan, Thomas Baurley, Eadaoin Bineid - technogypsie.com. To purchase this photo or to obtain permission to use, go to www.technogypsie.com/photography/
"PALEOINDIANS: The earliest people who inhabited North America are called Paleoindians. They came to Florida during the end of the last Ice Age, at least 12,000 years ago. Their way of life lasted for about 2,500 years. Archaeologists have found few Paleoindian sites. If, as it seems likely, these early people lived along the coast of Florida, their settlements have been covered by the rising sea level. Compared to later Florida Indian cultures, Paleoindians lived in small, widely dispersed groups. Their artifacts are often found around outcrops of a flint-like rock called chert. Pieces of chert were chipped, or knapped, to make stone tools. Paleoindian artifacts are also found in springs, sinkholes and rivers that were probably ancient waterholes. These were important sources of fresh water in an otherwise dry landscape.
PALEO TIMELINE: 12,000 B.P. to 9,500 B.P. (Before present) - EARLY PALEO PERIOD: 12,000-10,000 BP - Simpson point on mammoth ivory foreshaft (circa 11,500 BP) - First evidence of people on the Florida peninsula, Paleoindians live a semi-nomadic life, hunt big game like mastadon, climate was drier than today, and sea level is more than 100 feet lower than today. - Bison antiguns skull with embedded spearpoint, Wacissa River (circa 11,000 BP).
LATE PALEO PERIOD: 10,000 to 9500 BP - stone bola weight (circa 10,000 BP) had most big game animals extinct, wetter climate prevails, sea level rises gradually, several new styles of stone points appear, like the side notched bolan point. " ~ Display in the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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Human hand with black plastic kitchen scraper putting chopped chili peppers and garlic into little white bowl. Kitchen area with wooden chopping board.
Ideker scrapers, articulated trucks and excavator work the rock in the Triangle. One of my favorite shots----lot's of action.
Apoxyomenos (Scraper) - Roman Copy of an Original Bronze by Lysippos, a Greek sculptor who worked c. 325 BC
Vatican Museum.
This is a shoe scraper which was usually found in front of private houses and public buildings so that anyone going in would be able to clean his shoes and thus will not dirty the house. One has to remember that up to some decades ago the roads were not asphalted and any one walking in winter would result in having muddy shoes. Today, this is not necessary as people would have relatively clean shoes if they had not walked through country lanes on a rainy day.