An offering of vintage holiday images.
Load of Xmas trees, N.Y. Bain News Service, publisher, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915 U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Night Before Christmas by Nickolas Muray McCall Magazine, 1939 George Eastman House
George Eastman House, an independent nonprofit museum, is an educational institution that tells the story of photography and motion pictures—media that have changed and continue to change our perception of the world.
Victorian Christmas Card Nova Scotia Archives on The Commons (Flickr)
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Three from the Road – no. 7
During our September 2013 trip, we camped at Minnesota’s Upper Sioux Agency State Park in the Yellow Medicine River Campground. The park landscape encompasses grasslands, wetlands, woods, open prairie knolls, old fields, and meadows and includes the historic site of the Upper Sioux or Yellow Medicine Agency.
The campground has 34 developed sites, 12 with 30 amp electrical and 2 with 50 amp. There also 3 walk-in site along the Yellow Medicine River. Three 18-foot diameter canvas tipis are available.
The Upper Sioux Agency Horserider Campground has 45 sites and there are 6 sites available in the Riverside campground in a mowed area without specific campsite demarcation.
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An offering of vintage holiday images.
Victorian Christmas Card
Nova Scotia Archives on The Commons (Flickr)
Glædelig jul!
Happy Christmas
Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) on The Commons (Flickr)
The postcard is from the private archive of Oscar Andersen (1879-1953). Andersen was a preacher involved in the Mission Covenant Church of Norway’s work in Finnmark.
Woolson Spice Company (Manufacturers) Christmas Card
Miami University Libraries – ‘Digital Collections on The Commons (Flickr)
The Charles and Laura Dohm Shields Trade Card Collection is housed in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections Library at Miami University. Donated in 1987 by Charles Dohm Shields the collection contains several thousand advertising trade cards dating from the late 19th and early 20th Century. The collection was started by Charles’s mother Laura Dohm Shields.
Trade Cards were typically used to advertise products and services including such items as patent medicines, thread, sewing machines, food and beverages, farm equipment and others. Trade cards reached the height of their popularity during the 1880’s and 1890’s.
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On May 12, 2007, the Historic Arkansas Museum hosted its annual Territorial Fair, with living history presentations, hands-on activities for children, 19th century dancing and crafts demonstrations. While Karen demonstrated hand quilting, I wandered through the fair and other area places of interest.
Three from the Road – no. 6
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An offering of vintage holiday images.
Glædelig Jul, 1919
(Joyful Christmas)
Nasjonalbiblioteket on The Commons (Flickr)
National Library of Norway
Kerstinkopen doen
(Christmas Shopping)
Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands on The Commons (Flickr)
Spaarnestad Photo, Christmas Gifts. Studio recording. The last Christmas shopping, Netherlands 1961.
Carts full of turkeys, December 16, 1907
National Library of Ireland on The Commons (Flickr)
Carts full of turkeys queueing on the quays in Waterford city, at the foot of Conduit Lane, perhaps on the way to Flynn’s Poultry Stores. This shot was taken just outside Bell’s Chemists at 80 Meagher’s Quay.
(It looks to be chilly day in December, yet the lad behind the first cart appears to barefoot. See close-up crop on right. – MpG 12/8/13)
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Three from the Road – no. 5
On our trip to Charleston, South Carolina in June 2012, we visited the beach on Sullivan’s Island a couple of times and explored Fort Moultrie.
Images are from Sullivan’s Island on the afternoon of June 13, 2012.
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The Royal Gorge Bridge crosses the the Royal Gorge 955 feet (291 m) above the Arkansas River near Cañon City, Colorado, measuring from the bridge deck to the river below.
The bridge held the record of the highest bridge in the world from 1929 to 2001, surpassed now by the Liuguanghe Bridge in China. It remains the highest bridge in the United States.
The bridge was built in 1929 between June 5 and late November. Costing $350,000, it was built with the intent to be a tourist attraction and operated as a toll bridge.
In June 2013, a wildfire slightly damaged the bridge, but devastated the rest of the park. Thirty wooden planks had to be replaced on the bridge. The incline railway was severely damaged and the aerial tramway was destroyed.
Phase One Construction to rebuild the park was approved last month by the City Council of Canon City.
Three from the Road – no. 4
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Info for this post is from Wikipedia. See the Royal Gorge Bridge article for more information.
An offering of vintage holiday images.
Glædelig Jul, 1885
(Joyful Christmas)
Nasjonalbiblioteket on Flickr
National Library of Norway
Hvit jul
(Translation: White Christmas)
Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) on The Commons (Flickr)
The postcard is from the private archive of Oscar Andersen (1879-1953). Andersen was a preacher involved in the Mission Covenant Church of Norway’s work in Finnmark.
Making the Empire Christmas pudding (ca. 1926)
The National Archives UK on The Commons (Flickr)
Artwork by F C Harrison produced for the Empire Marketing Board.
No known copyright restrictions on any of these images.
Several old roads are visible from the top of the mesa called Island in the Sky in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. Most are relics from mining and prospecting in the past. Shafer Canyon Road drops from the top of the Mesa all the way down to the Colorado River. White Rim Road, connects part way down Shafer Canyon Road.
We haven’t taken any of the unpaved roads in the Island in the Sky part of the park as high clearance vehicles are recommended.
Three from the Road – no. 3
