Common Grackle – Fair Park, Dallas, Texas, March 18, 2007

1000 words #6

I’ve had a  Twitter account for a long time now, but only just recently started using it.  I only follow a few select people – and I have no desire to get into tweeting.  I follow these individuals for the information and links that they share, for the most part, not their tweet messages.  This one, though, resonated.  I thought I’d share it in a motivational poster kind of format.

Image credit: Some rights reserved by VinothChandar

Five unidentified prisoners of war in Confederate uniforms in front of their barracks at Camp Douglas Prison, Chicago, Illinois.

photograph : quarter-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 11.9 x 9.4 cm (case)

Donated by Tom Liljenquist; 2011

Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Record page for image is here.

Cross posted from my Civil War Blog, Daily Observations from The Civil War.

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Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:

• fade correction,
• color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
• selected spot removal.

Beggars, Alexandria, Egypt – Taken some time in 1900
Lantern slide; T. H. McAllister, Manufacturing Optician. 49 Nassau Street, New York.
Brooklyn Museum (image on flickr)

Aborigine’s house, Wilcannia, NSW, circa 1936 –  photographer Reverend Edward (“Ted”) Alexander Roberts
From the collection of the State Library  of New South Wales (image on flickr)

Hand colored lantern slide – Erwin Hinckley Barbour, J.L. Wortman, and James William Gidley on a “paleontological expedition for the Division of Vertebrate Mammals.” (From lantern slides found in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology Records.)  Smithsonian Institution (image on flickr)

The references for this image give a date range of  1900-1935. Gidley died in 1831 at the age of 55.  None of these men look that old.  Barbour was ten years older than Gidley.  In 1908, Wortman went to Brownsville, Texas, opened a drug store, and spent the rest of his life as a pharmacist.  My guess is that this image is from some time in the late 19th century.

Photos have no known copyright restrictions.

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A supercell near Booker, Texas from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

Fabric display in vendor booth, Dallas Quilt Show, March 17, 2007

1000 words #5

Custer State Park, South Dakota, August 22, 2007

The photo was used in the following video.  (It can also be viewed on YouTube.)

Our yard, Arkansas – March 10, 2007.

1000 words #4