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Posted on 4/1/24 at 7:32 pm to Kafka
During his annual checkup, Warren Zevon asks Dr Hunter S. Thompson to cure his really bad combover
Posted on 4/1/24 at 7:39 pm to Kafka
Posted on 4/1/24 at 7:47 pm to Kafka
Irish Immigrant Railroad Workers
Posted on 4/1/24 at 7:53 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Posted on 4/1/24 at 8:14 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Pancho Villa
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Posted on 4/1/24 at 8:14 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Apparently this is Plate No. 49 "Employees of U.P.R.R. at Laramie Station City"
Union Pacific R.R. Laramie Station in Laramie (Albany County) Wyoming around 1868. That station had been open and functional for less than a year when this photo was made. Photo is attributed to Andrew J. Russell.
I had thought that the photo had been printed in reverse, but apparently only the lettering in the inscription is backwards. The way the shirts and vests are buttoned indicates that the photo itself is in the correct orientation.
Good find!
Union Pacific R.R. Laramie Station in Laramie (Albany County) Wyoming around 1868. That station had been open and functional for less than a year when this photo was made. Photo is attributed to Andrew J. Russell.
I had thought that the photo had been printed in reverse, but apparently only the lettering in the inscription is backwards. The way the shirts and vests are buttoned indicates that the photo itself is in the correct orientation.
Good find!
Posted on 4/1/24 at 8:22 pm to Kafka
quote:Coulda been my uncle (who recently died at age 94) who got his PhD in Physics from MIT and worked for DuPont from the 1950s into the 2010s. (Consultant, at the end)
I’m named after him and proud of it.
America is still the Land of Opportunity.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 9:21 pm to soccerfüt
Buffalo Springfield members, Dewey Martin, Richie Furay and Neil Young.
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[/img]Posted on 4/1/24 at 9:56 pm to soccerfüt
quote:
Coulda been my uncle (who recently died at age 94) who got his PhD in Physics from MIT and worked for DuPont from the 1950s into the 2010s. (Consultant, at the end)
Doesn't necessarily have to go back all that far. My mother taught first through seventh grades in two one room schools in Lincoln County, WV in the late 50's/early 60's. (Summit and Sunnydale were the two schools.) Lincoln County is on the southeast side of Cabell county and south of Kanawha County. Not far at all from Huntington or Charleston by mileage, but it was decades away timewise until relatively recently.
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Posted on 4/1/24 at 10:28 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Manuel Noriega
Posted on 4/2/24 at 8:31 am to Swamp Angel
My folks were from the Eastern Panhandle.
Just as poor but closer to civilization (Baltimore & Washington).
In the ‘30s, boys were mandated to each have a handkerchief to attend public school*. The teachers were supposed to check once a week. None of the kids could afford them. The teacher would walk up & down the aisles while the kids were seated and the boys would (while seated) pull out the inner linings of their pockets and that would pass for a faux hanky.
*The specter of the 1918 Influenza epidemic was not far in the background.
Just as poor but closer to civilization (Baltimore & Washington).
In the ‘30s, boys were mandated to each have a handkerchief to attend public school*. The teachers were supposed to check once a week. None of the kids could afford them. The teacher would walk up & down the aisles while the kids were seated and the boys would (while seated) pull out the inner linings of their pockets and that would pass for a faux hanky.
*The specter of the 1918 Influenza epidemic was not far in the background.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 8:39 am to soccerfüt
Posted on 4/2/24 at 8:44 am to nes2010
Cutting hay, three generations.
They worked their asses off the keep the horses alive so they could use the horses to harvest enough hay keep the horses alive.
They worked their asses off the keep the horses alive so they could use the horses to harvest enough hay keep the horses alive.
This post was edited on 4/2/24 at 9:09 am
Posted on 4/2/24 at 9:39 am to soccerfüt
Ann Margret
Posted on 4/2/24 at 9:40 am to mauser
Posted on 4/2/24 at 9:41 am to mauser
Shirley Temple and Toto
Posted on 4/2/24 at 10:03 am to soccerfüt
They worked their asses off the keep the horses alive so they could use the horses to harvest enough hay keep the horses alive.
That was pretty much Middle Ages farm economy. Agriculture yielded enough grain for the horse and the man behind the horse. So the population of Europe stayed the same for like 1000 years.
It wasn't until the mold board plough arrived from China via some Dutch traders in the early 1700s that they slowly started producing a surplus of food.
That was pretty much Middle Ages farm economy. Agriculture yielded enough grain for the horse and the man behind the horse. So the population of Europe stayed the same for like 1000 years.
It wasn't until the mold board plough arrived from China via some Dutch traders in the early 1700s that they slowly started producing a surplus of food.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 10:12 am to No Colors
The caption on the photo was "Old meets new, a farmer shows off his Milwaukee grain binder while holding a cradle, the implement used for cutting grain before reapers and binders."
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