1895 Early example of double exposure photography on glass plates!

This is a rare example of a double exposure on a glass negative sometime around 1895. Way before the fun days of Photoshop!

"Amateurs often obtain unexpected results from carelessness in exposing their plates. Some very amusing pictures can, however, be obtained by making two different exposures on one plate. The subjects should, of course, be of a very different nature. In making these it is necessary to give a very short exposure in each case, about onehalf the amount that would be ordinarily required. The negative must be carefully developed, using plenty of restrainer. Similar effects can, of course, be obtained by printing from two different negatives, but the results are, as a rule, inferior."

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1970's HOWE FIRE APPARATUS CO. Advertising - Fire Engines

Early historic snow sledding photograph - Mount Rainer National Park

Talk about extreme snow sledding central! This photo is from 1936 at the Mount Rainer National Park. If they are heading down the whole mountain someone is probably going to get injured! Hiking, photography, and camping are well-liked ion the mountain. Hiking trails, including the Wonderland Trail, a 93 miles course of the peak provide access to the backcountry. Mount Rainier is also popular for winter sports, including snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. In summer, visitors journey through vast meadows of wildflowers, on trails appearing from historic Paradise Inn.

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BERLIN MAINE Bear Hunters in 1915

Old photo of bear hunt in BERLIN MAINE around 1915.

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Early Women Lawyers: The struggle of Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore

This article ran in THE NATION on May 8th 1884.



WOMEN AT THE BAR.

The struggle of Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore for admission to the bar has finally ended in a rather curious victory. She has for two years been going about from one court to another with a diploma as bachelor of laws, granted her by the University of Pennsylvania, insisting that the laws of that State give her the right to admission. These statutes, like those of most other States, say nothing about the sex of lawyers, and only require that the applicant should be “of an honest disposition and learned in the law.” Judges, however, have hitherto been unanimous, or nearly so, in the opinion that the uniform practice and custom of the modern world in confining the practice of the law to men ought to govern in the interpretation of such statutes, and that the only proper way to change the custom is by an act of the Legislature. Three separate courts in Philadelphia have taken this view, and if there was any doubt as to its correctness a very slight examination of the opinion of Judge Thayer, who has finally admitted Mrs. Kilgore, would be enough to remove it.

He disposes of the numerous decisions with regard to the proper interpretation of the statutes by declaring that he does not see how a custom can arise out of a “mere negation,” which is certainly a funny way for a judge to overrule his brethren on the bench; he then declines to enter into a controversy on the subject of women’s rights,” and finally decides the case on the following grounds: First, that “if there is any longer any such thing as what old-fashioned philosophers and essayists used to call the sphere of woman, it must now be admitted to be a sphere with an infinite and indeterminable radius” ; that she is “found in all the pursuits and professions of life”; that persons who talk of her admission to these with apprehension as of “an impending social change,” are asleep, and ought to “awake from their slumbers” and recognize the fact that “the revolution is over”; and finally, that it would not be in the line of a “wise judicial discretion” to attempt to “turn backward the Wheel of Time to convince history that it is all wrong, and to say at this time of day that woman shall not be permitted to pursue the vocation that suits her taste, and for which her studies have qualified her,”

It will be seen that what Judge Thayer has really done is, not indeed to go into a discussion of woman’s right to admission to the bar, but to assume that it is all settled, and that the customs of modern society allow her to engage in any calling she may like. If this is a correct view, the statutes relating to admission to the bar must be interpreted in the light of these customs, and by this means we reach the necessary conclusion that Judge Thayer is right and the other judges wrong.

The male bar as yet shows very little disposition to interest itself in the agitation for the admission of woman, and this is, we believe, generally due to a belief that women will never be able to enter into competition with them as lawyers. But is this clear? The “law business” in this country is in a very curious state, and there seems to be a demand on it for every species of man—for the learned and ignorant, the lazy and energetic, the bright and the stupid, the scrupulous and dishonest, the truthful and the mendacious. Many of these qualities are found among women.and in certain branches of practice, especially jury practice, the effect of a speech by a leading counsel might be powerful. It is said to be the custom of some attorneys in New York to retain special counsel solely on the round that they are likely to be opposed to other counsel of brow beating turn,whose wrath they do not fear. Pitting a very talkative woman against a loud, bullying lawyer would make such a lawsuit a very “even thing.” She would not dread him—a woman, when her blood is up, fears no one; and his scorn would only stimulate her to renewed efforts. In “woman cases” it has long been the custom of all eminent lawyers to make use of the woman in the case as far as possible, bringing her into court, melted in tears, or shaking with suppressed sobs, so as to move the softhearted jurymen. This machinery might be greatly reinforced by the aid of a lady-counsel, ready to take her erring sister by the band and make a final appeal to the jury on behalf of “all the hearts that would ache ‘if they should hang her.

The fact is generally overlooked by those who insist on woman’s admission to the bar, that it seems to involve, as a necessary consequence, her being enrolled for jury duty. It would, in fact, be much easier to show to the satisfaction of a court that a woman is fit to perform jury duty than that she can stand the tremendous strain that advocacy sometimes entails. She would merely have to sit a few days out of the year, in a perfectly comfortable chair, and then consult with her fellow-jurors, and put pieces of paper with “Yes” or “No,”“Guilty” or “Not guilty,” into a hat or bonnet, There is no question that she is as able to sit for a few days in court as a man, for she frequently sits there for days together; and jury duty, as every one knows, requires no special training or qualification of any kind. The enforceo silence might be a hardship, but then she would make up for this by magnificent opportunities for simultaneous conversation and argument in the jury. room. If woman’s sphere has an infinite and indeterminable radius, it must include jury service, Indeed, it seems to us that really high- minded women ought to ask for jury duty.

Diamond match company in Ontonagon Michigan burns to the ground

In the fall of 1896, the town of Ontonagon in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, burned to the ground and 2,300 people were left homeless. The entire Diamond Match company was destroyed. After the fire, the factory left town for good and attempted to take all of the remaining lumber with them. The authorities stopped them and used the lumber for the town, however the village would never be the same. If we use the figure in the article, 60,000,000 feet of lumber would bring you half way around the world... equaling a amount of matches impossible to calculate...

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Ontonago Michigan, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Of the city of about 2,000 populations hardly a house is left standing. Among the property destroyed is the extensive plant of the Diamond Match Company and 60,000,000 feet of lumber in their yards. Conservative estimates place the loss at $1,500,000. No lives were lost at last reported Communication has been cut off and no news will be possible. The fire had been burning in the woods southwest of the city for two weeks......

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Grassy Island Range Lighthouse, Green Bay WI for $4,000

This proposal below is from the MADISON CITY EXPRESS on April 25th 1844. The proposal is to build the lighthouse for $4,000.

This information below is from "SEEING THE LIGHT", Lighthouses of the Western Great Lakes. Link below.

In 1838, Lieutenant James T Homans, to whom responsibility for the lighthouses of the Northern Great Lakes fell at the time, sailed up the lakes to locate appropriate sites for a number of new lighthouses for which appropriations had been authorized the previous year. Arriving at Grassy Island, Homans was dismayed with what he found, reporting the island to be "unsuitable for construction of buildings upon it of any durability, and totally uninhabitable by a keeper, being nearly under water, from the great rise of the lake, since the recommendation for a light upon it was made." Searching for an alternate location for the Light, Homans recommended that the light instead be established on Tail Point, a peninsula lying a short distance north of Grassy Island, with both higher and ground and blessed by the local mariners with whom he spoke during his visit.

Fox River business interests were not easily dissuaded, and continued to apply pressure for the establishment of a lighthouse on Grassy Island. After the Legislature of the Territory of Wisconsin passed a resolution in favor of establishing a light on Grassy Island, the Governor of the Wisconsin Territory even convinced Vice President Mifflin Douglas and Speaker John Wesley Davis to go before the Senate and House respectively on February 1, 1846 to plead their case. While the matter was referred to the Commerce Committee, and a bill subsequently passed approving the establishment of the station on July 2, 1846, no appropriation was made. Thus the Lighthouse Board moved ahead with construction of the Tail Point light station, and it appeared that the matter of a light on Grassy Island was dead.

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Watching the 1928 World Series by telegraph in KEY WEST FLORIDA

This article is from the KEY WEST CITIZEN dated October 6th 1928.

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The first World series broadcast over distant radio stations via telegraph lines was in 1922, however in this case it seems they are watching the outcome on some kind of board updated by telegraph lines. This World Series is between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees.

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1951 BUICK Automobile Parts Guide

This page comes from a 1951 Automobile Parts Guide for a BUICK. If only we could buy a grille of a car for only $19.50. See below the photo for additional information.

I am starting another blog (and my LAST) detailing random information that really doesn't fit anything particular, but that someone might need or want to read. It is called "Casual Information" and you can read it HERE. The first post is on a female trying to get into the bar at the University of Pennsylvania named Carrie B. Kilgore.

Outlaw Bogan Cash shot and killed in South Carolina swamp

Interesting article from THE NATION in 1884 on the outlaw Bogan Cash and his death. The article laments the fact that the Cash family reproduces more than the murder he commits. According to the Virginia Military Institute, he died on May 15, 1884. He had fought two duels in South Carolina, and Cash later killed someone in a feud and when he refused to surrender to authorities he was killed by a posse in the swamps of his own plantation which is accounted for below.

Bogan Cash, the hopeful son of old “Colonel“ Cash, was killed last week in resisting arrest for the murder of the Cheraw City Marshal. He had for a month been hiding in a swamp, and defying the Sheriff. It is fortunate that he did not surrender himself, for he would almost certainly have been acquitted on trial, plain as his guilt was, and doubtless before long would have married and perpetuated the Cash breed, besides killing several other persons. The Cash type would have been extinct before now at the South, as its members generally die early and violent deaths, if they could be killed unmarried. But they are very apt to leave Sons behind, who are brought up on traditions of violence, bloodshed, and whiskey, and begin murdering as soon as they reach the age of puberty, if not sooner. The death of a Cash without heirs is, therefore, a great thing for the State. Ola Cash is still at large, perhaps one of the best specimens extant of what has been aptly called the “ante-bellium blackguard,” and he may do some mischief by way of avenging his son’s death; but he cannot last long at best. As we have more than once said already, it is not the existence of such men as Cash in South Carolina which is strange, but the importance attached to them by decent people. Mr. Shannon, a lawyer in good standing at the bar, and a man past middle life, actually felt it necesary to fight a duel with Cash for words spoken in court, simply because the drunken old ruffian went about calling him names.

1950's Detroit MI REVIVAL - Bring your sick and afflicted!

Here is a early 1950's REVIVAL flier from Detroit Michigan and the Bethel Assembly Church. Rev. Hymie Rubinstein says bring your sick and afflicted!

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Early 1900 Telegram by John Burroughs & School of the Woods

I found a while back this early telegram. Sometime between 1900 and 1909, John Burroughs wrote this telegram to the "School of the Woods" on a new theater. John Burroughs wrote "School of the Woods" in 1902, so it is not clear who he was writing this to. John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay.

Early Lottery Advertisement from 1817

This advertisement is on the front page of the American Centinel and Mercantile Advertiser, dated June 17th 1817. At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, a variety of states had to resort to lotteries to raise finances for several public projects. For several years these lotteries were exceedingly successful and added to the nation's swift growth. The lotteries were used for such varied projects as the Pennsylvania Schuylkill, Susquehanna Canal, and Harvard. Several American churches raised building finances through state official private lotteries. These lotteries eventually became a source of fiscal mismanagement and scandal.

1833 - Scene at the Battle of the Bad Axe

The below article is in regards to the Battle of Bad Axe. A woman is killed holding a child in her arms who ends up having her arm amputated.

The Battle of Bad Axe was a mostly one-sided affair that has been called a massacre by both modern and historical accounts of the engagement, as well as by those who participated. On 3 August 1832, the day after the battle, Indian Agent Street wrote to William Clark describing the scene at Bad Axe and the events that occurred there. He stated that most of the Sauk and Fox were shot in the water or drowned trying to cross the Mississippi to safety.[1] Major John A. Wakefield published an account of the war in 1834, which included a description of the battle. His description characterized the killing of women and children as a mistake.[2] "During the engagement we killed some of the squaws through mistake. It was a great misfortune to those miserable squaws and children, that they did not carry into execution [the plan] they had formed on the morning of the battle -- that was, to come and meet us, and surrender themselves prisoners of war. It was a horrid sight to witness little children, wounded and suffering the most excruciating pain, although they were of the savage enemy, and the common enemy of the country."

THE FRIEND - NOVEMBER 17th 1833

Scene at the Battle of the Bad Axe.- When our troops charged the enemy at their defiles near the bank of the Mississippi, men, women, and children were seen mixed together, in such a manner as to render it difficult to kill one and save the other. A young squaw of about nineteen stood in the grass at a short distance from our line, holding her little girl in her arms, about four years old. While thus standing apparently unconcerned, a ball struck the right arm of the child above the elbow, and shattering the bone, passed into the breast of its young mother, which instantly felled her to the ground. She fell upon the child and confined it to the ground also. During the whole battle this babe was heard to groan and call for relief, but none had time to afford it. When, however, the Indians had retreated from that spot, and the battle had nearly subsided, Lieutenant Anderson, of the United States army, went to the spot and took from under the dead mother her wounded daughter, and brought it to the place we had selected for surgical aid. It was soon ascertained that its arm must come off, and the operation was performed without drawing a tear or a shriek. The child was eating a piece of hard biscuit during the operation. It was brought to Prairie du Chien, and we learn that it had nearly recovered.

1. Grimsley, Mark. "Interrogating the Project of Military History, War Historian, Ohio State University. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
2. Wakefield, John Allen; Stevens, Frank Everett, ed. History of the War between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations of Indians, and Parts of Other Disaffected Tribes of Indians, in the Years Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-Seven, Thirty-One, and Thirty-Two; Reprinted as: Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk War, Original Publication: Jacksonville, Ill.: Calvin Goudy, 1834. Reprint Publication: Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1908, Chapter 7: Section 133, and Chapter 8

University of Virginia running on $100 and more.

Some interesting items from the NILES WEEKLY REGISTER - JANUARY 22nd 1825

Washington clamps down on PIRACY - appropriating over $500,000 "for the suppression of slavery.." US Navy history states that hundreds of pirate attacks occured in American and Caribbean waters between the years of 1820 and 1835. The decline of European Naval presence in this time is a direct cause of the resurgence. After the American Revolution, from about 1783 to 1835, the United States was left to secure the region's waterways from pirates. At the time the US navy was very small compared to that of European countries. Therefore pirates in the Americas were able to reestablish a region of pirate havens.



Governor of New Hampshire Benjamin Pierce invites Revolutionary War veterans to a dinner. All were citizens of Hillsborough NH. Benjamin Pierce was a distinguished veteran of the Revolutionary War, serving at first in the 16th Continental Regiment and later in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment. He was promoted to Ensign in the 1st Massachusetts Regiment for bravery at Saratoga. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Following the war, he moved to Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and was assigned the task of forming the Hillsborough County militia.





The University of Virginia is running on only $100. The University's first classes met in March 1825. Napoleon's last home before his death is now a barn, he had died there four years earlier in exile.




General Lafayette visited America once again. Robert G. Harper dies reading a newspaper. He was a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (1790–1795), the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina (1795–1801), and in the Maryland State Senate. He is best remembered for the phrase, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."