“Jabe Gormley I got ‘im; I got ‘im; – but he’s been to two dances already!”
Summary: Print shows a gathering of people in a barn for a Christmas dance party; the fiddler arrives late, a bit intoxicated, after playing at “two dances already!”
Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 978, (1895 December 4), centerfold.
Artist: Frank Marion Hutchins
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Image title: Lyndhurst – a happy Christmas at “Woody Crest,” December, 1905.
Summary: Five boys in costumes, with toys, in front of Christmas tree, Lyndhurst school, Tarrytown, N.Y.
Helen Miller Gould Shepard was the eldest daughter of New York financier Jay Gould and Helen Day Miller. Helen’s adult life was marked by her dedication to philanthropy, patriotism, and religious endeavors. Helen began her most notable philanthropic activities in the last decade of the 19th century. Helen opened the Lyndhurst estate to the community and hosted ill and impoverished children and families, entertained and tended to injured soldiers during the Spanish-American war, and established a sewing school for young ladies in Lyndhurst. Helen also maintained Woody Crest, a fresh air charity and home for physically handicapped children in Tarrytown, New York. (Guide to the Helen Miller Gould Shepard Papers, New York Historical Society Museum & Library)
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Summary: Print shows a well-dressed couple sitting on a sofa before a fire in the fireplace, with the spirits of three young children dancing around a Christmas tree; there are art-nouveau style furnishings (lamp and flower vase) on the table in the background.
Illus. from Puck, v. 40, no. 1031, (1896 December 9), centerfold.
Artist: Charles Jay Taylor
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According to one reporter, “Today Moscow was one step away from complete transportation paralysis.”
According to asiaone.com, heavy snowfall has snarled traffic in Moscow and has forced the Moscow airport to close for 15 minutes each hour for clearing the runway. In one region over the weekend, thousands of trucks were stuck in a 190 km-long jam, and new snow is slowing things down.
Unprepared drivers stranded in Turkey.Haberler.com says that snow at a Turkish winter resort combined with unprepared drivers has resulted in cars being stranded on the road to the resort, with highway crews attempting to open the roads.
Snow is expected to continue falling through the weekend.
Unemployed workers in front of a shack with Christmas tree, East 12th Street, New York City.
Photograph by Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee in Jan. 1938.
Library of Congress image.
Children playing with their Christmas toys on a side street, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
This December 1941 photo is by Jack Delano, photographer for the Farm Security Administration.
Library of Congress image.
It’s interesting what you can find when trying to find more information about an old photo. The photo below is in Yellowstone—Vintage Images at the new Haw Creek Destinations pages.
The photo is from the U. S. Geological Survey, but the caption there – Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Tourist camping scene. 1924. – is probably not entirely correct.
On the USGS site, the photographer is cited as C. E. Dobbin. It turns out that Dobbin is the man seated in the picture. Searches yielded a photo of Dobbin, but little else other than dates of birth and death, the fact he was a geologist and his first name was Carroll.
While they may have been tourists at the time of the picture – there is an open can of Del Monte sliced pineapple, a box of vanilla wafers, and other snacks on the tailgate of the truck –, it is likely that most of those in the picture were working geologists in the Yellowstone area during the summer of 1924.
In reading narratives of the park’s early exploration, I was surprised by the number of forest fires mentioned. Fallen trees from earlier fires often blocked progress of the exploring expeditions.
This photo is from the southern part of the park in 1898. The fire that killed these trees was not recent – note the vegetation in the foreground, – probably more than a couple of years. Looking at a high resolution image, there are small evergreens in the woods, probably about 2 to 3 feet tall. It’s likely that they are lodgepole pine, which have cones that need exposure to high temperature to open and release seeds.
On the Yellowstone section of Haw Creek Destinations, I’m including vintage images of visitors to the park, including the one above. On the left is a horse drawn covered buckboard, cropped from the lower right above.
I’ve been working at adding some content to Haw Creek Destinations. It’s all from Yellowstone, for now.
I’m still somewhat disappointed with the progress from the folks that make Thesis. Supporting documentation has been slow in coming and some of the extras that were promised still haven’t appeared. The release 8 weeks ago of Thesis 2.0 was poorly executed.
However, Thesis 2.0 is a great piece of software. I’ve been able to do a number of things with it that would have been hard to do with earlier versions and almost impossible to do with any of the free WprdPress themes I’ve used in the past. It does require a knowledge of HTML and CSS, though, and I’ve needed to do some studying.
