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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Some sepia trivia

 Another batch of old photos for Sepia Saturday.


A video shot (sorry for the blur) of my grandmother, late 1940s.



Home schooling in 1937 in Transylvania Louisiana.

Galveston Oyster Bake in 1910

Sculptor, Felix de Weldon working on the plaster model for the US Marine Corps War Memorial, abt. 1954.  This really puts it into perspective!

The aftermath of the 1949 blizzard in Nebraska...you could hook a photo onto a phone line apparently, if you knew how.

Arrow maker, early 1900s, Photogapher Richard Throssell.


1951 photo of members of Rangerettes dance team getting ready to perform. Life Magazine photo by John Dominis.

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Today's quote:
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. 
-Alice Walker, poet and novelist (b 1944)


20 comments:

  1. ...I wonder is much has change in Transylvania Louisiana.

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  2. Wonderful images! I wish I had more photos of my grandmother. Take care, have a great weekend.

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    1. Thanks, I also wish I had more family photos. There are so many, but then, just so many.

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  3. These are captivating. Homeschooling! Wow! Snowstorm phone call! And the Iwo Jima Memorial. We watched fireworks in DC one July picnicking on the grounds of that memorial. Long time ago.

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    1. Good to have that memory of Independence Day picnic!

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  4. Transylvania, Louisiana, eh? That as unexpected, but we have an Athens not too far away, and there was a Sparta near where we used ot live.

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    1. We have Transylvania County near us here in the mountains of NC. I've been through Athens GA, where the U of GA is located.

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  5. When I was in Michigan there was a Hell and a Paris. My paternal grandfather was from Athens, TN.

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    1. I don't remember ever going to Athens TN. Who would want to live in Hell?

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  6. Interesting photos. I wonder how high that telephone pole was - without the snow? (as it happens, in my post this week my grandmother (in a letter) mentioned telephone wires hanging so low that they caused traffic accidents, even in summer...)

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    1. Oh goodness...that's awful. But I guess if something (car?) hit one of the poles, and it leaned just a bit...all the weight of those wires could bring them closer to the ground!

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  7. Wonderful photos of talented individuals engaged in varieties of creative work. Well done and nice matches to the prompt!

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  8. Wonderful photos of talented individuals engaged in varieties of creative work. Well done and nice matches to the prompt! (my name didn't take the first time :-)

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  9. A neat collection. The ladies of Galveston don't look like they are dressed appropriately for an oyster bake. Gloves? And that image of the sculptor with his gigantic work is amazing. He needed some real engineering to cast that in bronze.

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